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Historical Event on 5/16/1911
Pumping Station of Calcutta was commissioned at Tallah.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/3/1929 | The ""Times of India Illustrated Weekly"" was renamed as ""The Illustrated Weekly of India"". |
| 2/24/1995 | 25 jawans die in an explosion in Brahmaputra Mail near Nilalong station about 200 km from Guwahati. |
| 1/14/1760 | Eyree Coote, British Army Captain, captured and surrendered Pondicherry, capitulated French General Lally. |
| 1/15/1949 | General K. N. Kariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief. He was the first Indian to reach to this post in Indian Army. In 1956, he was designated as Chief of the Army Staff - General, later Field Marshal. This event is commemoratively observed as Army Day. |
| 1/6/1989 | Satwant Singh (24) and Kehar Singh (54) executed for the murder case of Smt. Indira Gandhi in Tihar Jail at New Delhi. |
| 11/13/1953 | Richard Nixon, the US Vice President, arrives in New Delhi. |
| 8/4/2000 | Justice Brij Mohan Lal was sworn in chairman of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission. |
| 2/25/1844 | Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, was born. |
| 9/5/1872 | V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freeom fighter, social reformer, prolific writer, politician and leader, was born at Ottapidaram village in Tamil Nadu. |
| 9/28/1984 | First floodlights lit ODI between India and Australia held outside of Australia at New Delhi. |
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