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Historical Event on 5/16/1975

Sikkim High Court was established at Gangtok for Sikkim territory.

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8/14/199315 bus passengers massacred in J&K.
10/16/1952Pakistan's first Test vs India starts at Delhi.
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8/4/2000Pranab Mukherjee and S. Jaipal Reddy, Congress(I) leaders, get Best Parliamentarian awards for the year 1997-98.
10/30/1889Acharya Narendra Deo, educationist, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Sitapur, U.P.