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Historical Event on 5/16/1960

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

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/11/1930Pandit Motilal Nehru renamed 'Anand Bhuvan' as 'Swaraj Bhawan' and handed it over to the people.
4/17/1799Srirangapatnam was surrounded by British Army in the fourth and last Mysore war which began in 1798. Tipu Sultan' was killed in the battle on 4th May. The East India Company announced the Seringapatanam Medal (1799).
10/17/1915Virendra Kumar Jain, great Hindi writer, was born in Mandsaur.
10/5/1991Vinayakrao Devrukhkar, famous playwright, novelist and editor of a daily newspaper 'Sandhya', died.
4/14/1990J&K Assembly dissolved.
4/4/1951West Germany establishes full diplomatic relations with India.
10/6/1963Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter and grand old man of Punjab, died.
9/18/1803Puri was captured by Britishers from the Marathas without any struggle.
8/18/1872Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar Gadgil, who provided new heights to North Indian classical music, was born at Kundanwadi at Kolhapur distrist in Maharashtra.
12/28/1926Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service.