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Historical Event on 6/16/1893

Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar, social worker and industrialist, was born at Athikkadu Thekkur in Tamil Nadu.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/21/1906Vyomeshchandra Banerjee, first president of All India Congress, passed away.
4/2/1948Defence Minister announces the establishment of the National War Academy in Kharakvasla, Poona.
1/23/1993Indian Airlines B737 crashes at Aurangabad, 61 die.
6/26/1955Poland and India affirm Panchsheel.
8/26/1984An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers.
1/2/2000Surya Sekar Ganguly (Goodricke National Academy) wins the Junior National chess championship in Sivakasi.
11/11/2000Harin Pathak, Union Minister of State for Defence, resigns after being chargesheeted by a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case relating to the murder of a head constable at the height of the anti-reservation agitation in 1985.
1/1/1988The Officers Training School (OTS) was re-christened as Officers Training Academy. Besides training Indian nationals, 74 cadets from Sri Lanka have also been trained at the OTA.
5/17/1980V. S. Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on one foot for continuous 33 hrs.
2/26/1976V. S. Khandekar was honoured by Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award for the novel 'Yayati'.