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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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9/23/1743	Sawai Jaising died.
5/31/1973	Mohan Kumaramangalam, Central Minister, died in an air crash near Delhi.
9/9/1923	First magazine 'Kiran' was published by Ravikiran Mandal.
7/16/1981	India performs nuclear Test.
6/21/1948	C. Rajagopalachari was appointed the first Indian Governor General of Indian union (21/06/1948-25/01/1950). After January 25, 1950, this post was abolished.
2/2/1814	Calcutta Museum was established. It was a part of the Asiatic Society at a suggestion of a Danish surgeon Dr. Nathaniel Wallich, who was its first Director also.
3/10/1922	Gandhiji arrested for the first time in Bombay on the charges of sedition at Sabarmati.
10/24/1904	Lalchand Hirachand, famous industialist, was born.
6/1/1992	S.K. Datta became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/07/93).
6/12/1975	Drugaprasad Dhar, former deputy president of Planning Commission, died.

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