16 December in Hindu history
16 December 1971
26 March – 16 December 1971; India at war from 3 DecemberPakistan surrenders at Dhaka; Bangladesh is born
Thirteen days after the war began, Lt Gen A. A. K. Niazi signs the surrender before Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora and about 93,000 Pakistani soldiers lay down arms. Bharat keeps the day as Vijay Diwas.
Bangladesh Liberation War
After Pakistan’s army turned on the people of East Bengal in March 1971, and ten million refugees fled to India, the Indian army and the Mukti Bahini freed Bangladesh in a thirteen-day war.