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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 |
| 8/2/1919 | Bharat Bhushan Agrawal, famous poet and winner of Sahitya Academy Award, was born. |
| 5/11/1930 | Ganesh Narayan R, great Industrialist, was born. |
| 5/11/1930 | Muiz ud din Qaiqabad, was the tenth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty (Slave dynasty), was killed in his bed. He was proved to be an inefficient ruler. |
| 8/19/1944 | The last Japanese troops driven out of India. |
| 4/29/1957 | The National Civil Defence College was founded at Nagpur as the Central Emergency Relief Training Institute (CERTI). It functions as the training wing of the Emergency Relief Organisation of the Government of India. |
| 6/8/1897 | Manindranath Basu, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 6/18/1940 | Forward Block Party was established. |
| 9/26/1996 | CBI chargesheeted Rao in St. Kitts case. |
| 5/15/1958 | Aruna Asaf Ali became the Mayor of Delhi. |
| 2/1/1917 | Samar Roy, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1961-70, was born in Bengal. |
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