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Historical Event on 11/16/1877
Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer and innovator, died. He was the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He introduced lighting by gas and was the first to build ""INDUS"", a steam-ship in India in 1833. He also introduced sewing machine, photography and electro-plat
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| 12/29/1977 | World's biggest Drive-In theatre started screening in Bombay. |
| 12/3/1989 | Mulayam Singh Yadav named UP CM. |
| 1/21/1910 | Ramnath Anandilal Poddar, great industrialist, was born. |
| 10/5/1991 | Vinayakrao Devrukhkar, famous playwright, novelist and editor of a daily newspaper 'Sandhya', died. |
| 9/4/1983 | INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully. |
| 4/16/1976 | The govt. announces its new birth-control program to curb population growth. |
| 4/16/1976 | Emperor Humayun, son of Babar, was born in Kabul. |
| 9/12/1961 | Nalin Vilochan Sharma, great Hindi critic, died. |
| 7/13/1660 | Baji Prabhu Deshpande, one of the warriors in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's kingdom, died. |
| 7/9/1994 | Surendranath, Governor of Punjab, died. |
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