16 June - India on this day17 events

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

Hemant Chaudhary, famous singer and music director, was born.

M. Muthuraman, noted Hindi writer and professor, was born at Dindigul in Madurai (Tamil Nadu).

Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born.

Chittaranjan Das, great freedom fighter, revolutionary, orator, poet, journalist and lawyer, died.

Anandram Dhekial Fukun, father of modern Assamia poetry and essay writer, passed away.

Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, meets her Indian couterpart A B Vajpayee in New Delhi.

Bombay gets 42 cm rainfall, the century's highest. The previous high of 41 cm was recorded on 18, 1986.

GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops.

Harshad Mehta accuses PM of taking Rs. 1 crore payoff from him in November 1991; Rao terms it malicious and unfounded.

P. Sukumaran (50), Malayalam film actor, died in Kochi.

P. D. Dhhavle, former editor of daily newspaper `Maharashtra', passed away.

Britain invites Indian leaders to set up an interim govt at London.

C. Rajagopalchari became the Governor of West Bengal (1947) in Interim Government.

Cabinet Mission negotiations were discontinued. Viceroy proposed Interim Government.

Nehru opponents founded People's party at New Delhi.

K. R. Narayanan, Vice-President, is the joint candidate of Congress(I) and United Front for Presidentship in July 14 election.