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Historical Event on 9/16/1997

Rajeev Balakrishnan sets 100m national mark in the ITC International Athletics meet.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/9/1970Production of Uranium 233 started at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Bombay.
4/3/1926Muslim-Hindu riots destroy temples, killing 12, wounding 100 in Calcutta.
10/19/1954Nehru and Mao meet in Peking.
1/11/1999Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.
11/20/1969The Union Home Ministry decides to reserve posts for SC\STs in the public sector undertakings.
9/21/1994Outbreak of pneumonic plague in Surat, Gujarat.
5/1/1966Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra.
5/1/1966Bahadur Tair, under their leader Mongol of Hulagu Khan, captured Lahore.
8/17/1996CBI seizes another Rs. 65 lakhs from Sukh Ram's residence.
5/2/1996Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.