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Historical Event on 5/16/1975
Sikkim High Court was established at Gangtok for Sikkim territory.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/19/1917 | Ashoknath Banerjee, Governor of Karnataka, was born. |
| 5/16/1994 | Phani Mujumdar, veteran film producer and director, passed away. |
| 4/28/1996 | EC orders re-polling in 69 booths in four states. |
| 7/26/1933 | Gandhiji went back to Sabarmati Ashram after his release from jail. |
| 6/18/2000 | K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine. |
| 9/12/1931 | Triloki Nath Madan, educationist and journalist, was born at Srinagar, Kashmir. |
| 5/6/1952 | Maria Montessori, pioneer in mordern education, who spent almost 10 years in India, died in Noordwijk aan Zee. The principles and techiques advocated by her are also applied to the education of handicapped children and adult education. |
| 7/13/1907 | Hari Vishnu Kamat, great politician, was born. |
| 4/26/1924 | Ramabai Ranade, social reformer, passed away. She played a major role in the upliftment of women in India and founded Sevasadan in Bombay, a hostel for the ladies. |
| 2/13/1977 | Jasawant Singh, famous physiologist, passed away. |
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