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Historical Event on 11/16/1995
Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS), India's first elevated suburban railway, becomes operational in Madras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/16/1995 | Sun City India founded by Rao in Jodhpur. |
| 7/27/1928 | Rameshwar Sahai Saxena, famous writer, lawyer and journalist, was born at Lalitpur, (UP). |
| 2/28/1930 | Strike by workers of the Nizam state railways over bonus. |
| 11/13/1908 | Yeshwantrao Hindurao Ghorpade, former ruler and great industrialist, was born. |
| 3/29/1849 | Maharaj Dulip Singh left the throne of Punjab that once belonged to his late father Ranjit Singh and was then occupied by the East India Company. The Britishers had captured it after defeating the Sikh Army at Amritsar. |
| 8/9/2000 | Parliament approves the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Bill 2000, paving the way for the creation of a separate Chhattisgarh State. |
| 2/2/1978 | Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, the first receipent of ""Gyanpeeth Puraskar (Award)"", and many other awards, passed away. |
| 6/24/1991 | Pranab Mukherjee appointed Dy. Chairman of the Planning Commission. |
| 12/8/1970 | Army Ordnance Corps was awarded the 'Colours' by the Vice President of India, Shri G S Pathak, at AOC Centre, Secunderabad. The Ordnance colour is a scarlet silken flag with the Ordnance crest in the center and surrounding it is a wreath of Ashoka Leaves and Lotus flowers. |
| 12/22/1966 | U.S. announces allocation of 900,000 tons of grain to fight famine in India. |
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