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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 |
| 12/20/1957 | Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' is declared the best film at the San Francisco Film Festival. |
| 8/22/1877 | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka. |
| 4/24/1996 | SC holds that bank managers acting beyond their authority in allowing overdrafts and passing cheques would be amounted to committing misconduct. |
| 10/25/1971 | National Science and Technology Committee established. |
| 7/30/1997 | Madras High Court restrains, by an interim injunction, the foreign universities/institutions having offices in India from awarding or conferring any degree on Indian students. |
| 4/23/1774 | British Commander Colonel Chapman defeated Rohilla's army and captured Ruhelkhand. |
| 5/18/1992 | President R. Venkataraman reaches Beijing. |
| 4/24/1973 | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian capt at 23), was born in Bombay. |
| 5/8/1996 | Poll counting begins. |
| 6/9/1998 | Gujarat was hit by a cyclone killing 1,000 people in six days. |
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