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Historical Event on 5/16/1986

V. Shantaram, 75, was chosen for the Dada Saheb Phalke award.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/18/2000K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine.
10/21/1950China invades Tibet.
5/19/1969Cyclone hit Andhra Pradesh claiming 608 lives and rendering 20,000 homeless.
4/2/1902Gulam Ali Khan Ustad Bade was born.
7/9/1951India's first Five Year Plan prepared and published. There was the first amendment to the Constitution and the first general elections were held.
9/11/1991V. S. Narayan, 'Janmabhumi' Newspaper Group chief, died.
10/26/1996CBI detects a chain of bank transactions between August '93 and February '96 by four JMM leaders.
9/26/1919Rotary Club's first Indian meeting was held.
9/24/1829Anandram Dhekial Fukan, father of modern Assamia poetry and essay writer, was born.
1/22/1996Janata Dal parliamentary party leader Sharad Yadav resigns from Lok Sabha membership (Jain hawala case).