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Historical Event on 4/16/1903

Kalka-Simla Railway line section was opened for public conveyance.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/20/1904Charles Freer Andrews came to India as a Christian Missionary and joined the staff of St. Stephen's College in Delhi.
4/1/1918Royal Air Force replaces Royal Flying Corps in Britain.
11/22/1873Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), was born.
1/18/1990Farooq Abdullah, J&K CM, quits.
5/21/1998India declares a moratorium on nuclear testing.
8/18/1997Shanvac-B, India's first genetically engineered vaccine for Hepatitis B was launched.
12/31/1995K.P.S. Gill, DGP of Punjab, retires from service.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
5/11/1993Toy factory fire kills over 200 people in Bangalore.
7/6/1955Marshall Tito and Nehru's joint declaration in Belgrade.