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Historical Event on 5/16/1960

International Telex Service between India and U.K. started.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/29/1658Dara Shukoh was utterly defeated by Aurangzeb in the battle of Samugarh near Agra.
5/4/1994Fourth developmental launch of ASLV. 113 kg Stretched Rohini Satellite Series (SROSS-C2) was launched by fourth developmental flight of ASLV-D4 from Sriharikota. This carried two scientific payload, a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) experiment and a Retarding Potential Analyser (RPA). It is still in service.
7/1/1821Daily newspaper 'Mumbai Samachar' was published.
5/5/1947Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable.
1/7/1993The union govt. acquires 67.703 acres of land in and around the disputed area at Ayodhya and refers the issue to the Supreme Court.
12/29/1959Durgapur Iron Plant inaugurated.
12/31/1943Ben Kingsley Scarborough, English actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice), was born.
11/23/1908Durga Das, famous social reformer and journalist, was born.
7/21/1977K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
1/20/1939Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, great Indian astronomer, was born.