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Historical Event on 5/16/1975

Sikkim annexed principality and was declared as the 22nd state of Indian Union.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1996Kerala introduces ban on arrack. 5614 licenced arrack shops closed down.
1/18/2000India and the US resume talks to narrow their differences on the CTBT.
4/15/1947Issues with Jinnah a joint appeal for communal peace.
2/2/1949Press Trust of India' was established.
11/29/1928Krishnaji Narayan Aathaly, great Marathi litterateur and editor, passed away.
3/3/1989Gwal Pahari in Haryana switched on the solar energy centre of the first pilot 50 kilowatt solar power plant.
1/12/1918C. Ramchandra (Chitalkar), famous film music director, was born.
11/1/1913Ghadar Movement started at San Francisco.
11/13/1995The Supreme Court in an unanimous 65-page verdict declares that patients who received deficient services from the medical profession and hospitals were entitled to claim damages under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986.
1/9/1922Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley.