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Historical Event on 5/16/1975
Sikkim annexed principality and was declared as the 22nd state of Indian Union.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/20/1946 | Gandhiji attends Working Committee meeting from 20-21 June. |
| 5/23/1923 | Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, Indian cricket pace bowler (1949-52), was born in Calcutta. |
| 10/19/1970 | First Indian-made MIG-21 handed over to the Air Force. Privy purses and privileges of former Indian rulers abolished. |
| 11/14/2000 | Jharkhand, the 28th State of the Indian Union, comes into being and the new Governor, Prabhat Kumar, and the Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi, take office. |
| 9/24/1992 | Union Labour Minister announces a new export-oriented emigration policy in place of the regulatory one. |
| 2/17/1998 | Delhi-Tamil Nadu Ranji Trophy super-league match in Chennai was abandoned owing to pitch tampering. |
| 11/12/1958 | Satyajit Ray gets the award for best direction at the San Francisco International Film Festival. |
| 10/25/1989 | P. Baiju, Anand Shetty, Arjun Deviah, Ananda Natarajan set a record for India at the 4x100m relay meet in 40.14s at Islamabad. |
| 2/18/1911 | World' s first official airmail flight service with 6,500 letters and post cards was made between Bamrauli to Naini (Allahabad) on February 18, 1911. |
| 12/1/1999 | Supreme Court quashes a pending inquiry initiated by the Election Commission against former Union Finance Minister Manmohan Singh. |
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