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Historical Event on 11/16/1877
Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer and innovator, died. He was the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He introduced lighting by gas and was the first to build ""INDUS"", a steam-ship in India in 1833. He also introduced sewing machine, photography and electro-plat

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9/24/1726	King George empowered the company to establish Municipal Corporation and Mayor s Courts in Bombay and Calcutta.
1/23/1997	Statue of Subhash Bose unveiled inside Parliament House.
2/24/1924	Mahatma Gandhi released from jail.
9/18/1972	India becomes the top film producer of the world with 433 feature films made in 1971.
5/21/1999	A powerful bomb explodes and another is defused on the road leading to the Imphal airport minutes before the Prime Minister landed to commence his two-day visit to the State.
8/4/1935	Government of India got the Royal Assent Act 1935.
1/11/1613	Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat. And the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth.
11/3/1908	Shreyansprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born.
11/3/1908	Humayun died at Delhi. Two days earlier he had slipped on the staircase of a library being constructed at the Old Fort.
8/12/1996	Supreme Court stays further proceedings against Narasimha Rao in Chandraswami-Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case.

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