History, Birthdays and Historic Events of 16 January-

• January 16, 1556 – Huge earthquake came in China (Shenxi, Gansu and Shanxi) in which More than 800,000 people died.
  

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• January 16, 1630 – Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh guru, was born on 16 January 1630. He was the grandson of sixth Sikh leader Guru Hargobind Singh ji and became the Sikh leader at age 14, on 8 March 1644. He guided the Sikhs for about seventeen years, till his death at age 31 on October 6, 1661.
  

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• January 16, 1681 – Sambhaji was crowned as the successor of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Raigad Fort.
  

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• January 16, 1761 – British took control of Pondichery in India on 16 January 1761, against the French.
  

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• January 16, 1818 – The Rana of Udaipur signed a treaty with the British to protect Mewad.
  

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• January 16, 1858 – Baithi, Laikha, Ratna, Maani and all other women were hanged who participated in Meerut Kranti at Gudgaon (now Gurugram) .
  

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• January 16, 1901 – Death of Govind Ranade, scholar, social reformer and founding member of Indian National Congress, passed away who was born on January 18, 1842.
  

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• January 16, 1926 – Birth of O. P. Nayyar, Indian director and composer who died on 28 January 2007.
  

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• January 16, 1938 – Sarat Chandra Chatterji, alternatively spelt as Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, famous Bengali novelist and writer, passed away. He was born on 15 September 1876 and remains the most popular, most translated, most adapted, and most plagiarized Indian author of all time.
  

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• January 16, 1941 – Ashok Vajpai, veteran critic and Hindi poet, was born.
  

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• January 16, 1946 – Kabir Bedi was born on 16 January 1946 who is an Indian actor.
  

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• January 16, 1954 – Baburao Painter, pioneering Indian film director, pass away who was born on 3 June 1890.
  

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• January 16, 1973 – Om Prakash Mehra, Air Chief Marshal PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
  

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• January 16, 1985 – Balram Jakhar was elected as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
  

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• January 16, 1990 – All Governors were asked to resign.
  

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• January 16, 1992 – Prices of steel and iron were decontrolled.
  

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• January 16, 1995 – Missile carrier vessel ‘Vidhrut’ was dedicated to the nation.
  

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• January 16, 1995 – Avalanches following heavy rain sweeped two buses off the highway between Srinagar and Jammu in Kashmir. Two more days of avalanches in the area eventually killed more than 200 people; 5,000 others had to be rescued.
  

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• January 16, 1996 – Supreme Court said trial courts should hold trial of rape cases in camera.
  

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• January 16, 1996 – Union Cabinet Minister V.C. Shukla, Balram Jhakar, Madhavrao Scindia, and others including BJP President L.K. Advani, Arjun Singh and Devi Lal chargesheeted in the multi-crore Jain `Hawala’ case.. L.K. Advani resigned from Lok Sabha membership.
  

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• January 16, 2002 – The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
  

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to be Continued ..