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Historical Event on 5/16/1911

Pumping Station of Calcutta was commissioned at Tallah.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/27/1994Tarktirth Laxmanshastri Joshi, internationally famous omnicient, passed away.
1/11/1994Shankarrao Savekar, veteran cameraman of film industry, passed away.
10/14/199210 Indians sentenced to six years in jail in the UAE on account of staging a play in Sharjah.
4/12/1936Nehru urges Socialism for India.
11/21/1963First sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Thus started India's space programme.
2/19/1919Arvind Gokhle, great Marathi story writer, was born.
8/5/1907Kashi Nath Pandey, politician and Trade Unionist, was born in Fursatpur Village.
9/9/1997Designated court decides to frame charges against 49 persons, including Shiv Sena Supremo Bal Thackeray, BJP president L. K. Advani and former U.P. Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, in cases relating to Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.
9/15/1948The India flag carrying vessel reached Bombay Port.
9/13/1984Swami Brahmanand died. He established Brahmanand Inter College (1938), Brahmanand Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (1943) and Brahmanand Mahavidyalaya (1960). He joined the freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non Cooperation Movement and Quit India Movement.