16th March – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

Today In History? 

Find out what happened on 16th March in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred 16th March

Rajpal Yadav (born 16 March 1971) is an Indian film actor, known for his comic roles in Hindi movies. Rajpal Yadav was born and brought up in Kundra, Shahjahanpur, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, where he received his primary education.

Rannvijay Singh Singha (born March 16, 1983 in Jalandhar), is an Indian Actor who acts in Bollywood and Punjabi Films and also a VJ on MTV India. Rannvijay Singh was born in Jalandhar, in a Jatt Sikh family. His father is an Indian Army officer, as was his great grandfather.

Kunwar Amar (born 16 March 1985) is a contemporary dancer from India. He was a finalist in Zee TV’s dance reality show Dance India Dance (season 2) and is currently playing the main lead on Channel V India’s popular dance-based teen drama Dil Dosti Dance.

Ayesha Dharker (born 16 March 1978, in Bombay, India) is a British-Indian actress. She is known for her performance in the Tamil Indian film, The Terrorist (1999), for which she was awarded Best Artistic Contribution by an Actress

Iftikhar Ali Khan (16 March 1910—5 January 1952) was the 8th Nawab of Pataudi and the captain of the India national cricket team for the tour to England in 1946.

Death anniversaries on 16th March

Samudrala Raghavacharya (19 July 1902 – 16 March 1968) also known as Samudrala Senior, is a writer, producer, director and playback singer of Telugu films, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Ganesh Dāmodar Sāvarkar (June 13, 1879 – March 16, 1945) was an Indian freedom fighter, Hinduist Rightist, a revolutionary, and founder of the Abhinav Bharat Society. Ganesh (Babarao) was the eldest of the Savarkar brothers, Ganesh, Vinayak, and Narayan

Neville Stephen J. D’Souza (1 January 1932 – 16 March 1980) was an Indian footballer who represented his nation at the 1956 Summer Olympics, where he became the first Asian player to score a hat-trick in an Olympic Games. D’Souza finished the tournament as joint top-scorer, with 4 goals in 3 games.

Notable Events:

1912 Gandhiji commends Gokhale’s attempts for abolition of indenture system.

1928 C.V. Raman announced his discovery of ”new radiation” to an assembly of scientists at Bangalore.

1939 Subroto Mukherjee became the first Indian Officer to command a squadron when he took over No.1.

1946 India calls Attlee’s independence offer contradictory, ‘a propaganda move’.

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