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Historical Event on 11/16/1991
60 percent of the 23 million voters exercise their franchise in the by-elections to 15 Lok Sahba and 56 Assembly seats in 14 states.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/1/1901 | Six language penel were started on the Rs. five dinomination. These notes were single sided and the back side could be used for accounting purposes. The six languages were Urdu, Bengali, Telugu, Kaithi, Kannada and Tamil. The paper used for printing was white hand made and moulded. |
| 5/16/1911 | Pumping Station of Calcutta was commissioned at Tallah. |
| 9/9/1949 | Hindi was accepted as the national language of India. |
| 12/1/1960 | Air Marshal Aspy Merwan Engineer DFC became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/07/1964. |
| 8/19/1947 | Vinayak Damodar Karnataki (Master Vinayak), famous Marathi actor, director and producer, died. |
| 3/17/1997 | A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI. |
| 5/8/1996 | The governing Congress party is routed in Indian elections that have left no party with a clear mandate to govern. |
| 6/15/1899 | Roy Chowdhury Devipasad, modern Indian sculptor and painter, was born. |
| 11/16/1989 | 66 out of 71 trapped miners at Raniganj rescued. |
| 12/11/1780 | Goddard General, Bassein fort was captured near Bombay. |
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