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Historical Event on 5/16/1911

Pumping Station of Calcutta was commissioned at Tallah.

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1/19/1997Air India triumphs in the National Women's Cricket championship in Calcutta.
7/1/1928Fifteen people were killed in Calcutta as Hindus attacked Muslims.
5/9/1992Madhu Sapre, Miss India, is crowned the second runner-up at the Miss Universe beauty pageant.
9/26/1999Six selected for Shanti Swaroop award for Science.
6/24/1946Gandhiji meets Cabinet Mission.
12/23/1977Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born.
2/13/1968Atal Bihari Vajpayee elected President of the All India Jan Sangha.
5/17/1957Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an end to nuclear tests.
2/13/1999The 5th National Games were inaugurated by President K.R. Narayanan in Imphal.
4/6/1992Nagpur edition of Marathi newspaper 'Loksatta' was started.