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Historical Event on 5/16/1911

Pumping Station of Calcutta was commissioned at Tallah.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/22/1997Bus plummets into the swollen Usri river in Giridih dist, Bihar, killing 70.
1/1/1969B. Sivaraman was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-11-1970.
9/23/1983Supreme Court upholds execution of criminals through hanging by rope.
5/18/1933Gandhiji commences at noon 21 days' fast for self-purification; released unconditionally at 9 p.m.
12/4/1973Mohan Rakesh, famous modern Hindi dramatist, novelist and story writer, passed away.
5/29/1982Naval Academy at Ezhimala, Kerala, was approved by Union Cabinet.
3/15/1908Police shoot four people in rioting.
11/19/19829th Asian Games started in Delhi.
7/4/1997Mumbai High Court directs BMC to reinstate G.R. Khairnar, the iconoclastic Dy. Municipal Commissioner suspended in `94 and removed from service in October 1996.
12/10/1902Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria.