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Historical Event on 5/16/1960

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

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/6/1966Madurai Kamraj University established.
4/20/1992U. K. Kanitkar, famous scientist, and professor, passed away.
11/18/1955Nicolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, top USSR Soviet leaders, first time came to New Delhi.
5/31/1926Probir ""Khokhan"" Sen, cricket wicket-keeper (India in late 40's/early 50's), was born.
3/17/1943Indian troops retreat from Rathedaung to Buthidaung in the face of a renewed Japanese offensive on the Arakan front in Burma.
1/7/1685Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born.
7/11/1997Ten persons were killed as police opened fire on Dalit mob which attacked vehicles in protest against desecration of Ambedkar bust in Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar in north-east Mumbai.
3/29/1849Maharaj Dulip Singh left the throne of Punjab that once belonged to his late father Ranjit Singh and was then occupied by the East India Company. The Britishers had captured it after defeating the Sikh Army at Amritsar.
3/26/1999Indian Airlines regained the National hockey men's title in Hyderabad.
12/13/1955India and the USSR affirm the Panchsheel.