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16 August

🇮🇳 In India

1886 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, born Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya, Indian mystic and yogi, passed away.

1904 Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, the famous Hindi poet was born. One of her most popular poems is Jhansi ki Rani.

1969 V.V. Giri is elected the fourth President of India

2018 Unprecedented flooding and landslides in Kerala, India, reported to have killed 106 people with 150,000 homeless.

2018

Former Prime Minister, poet, and the fiery speaker, Atal Bihari Vajpayee passed away at the age of 93. He served three terms as the prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 to 1999, followed by a full term from 1999 to 2004.

🌎 Elsewhere

1858 Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan for 1st time by transatlantic telegraph cable, he replies: "It is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by conqueror on the field of battle."

1988 IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence.

1993 The Debian distribution first announced by Ian Murdock, a student at Purdue University (Murdock initially called his system the "Debian Linux Release").

2003 Cristiano Ronaldo, at the age of 18, makes his debut for Manchester United and the Premier League in a 4–0 home victory over Bolton Wanderers.

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