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Historical Event on 11/5/1951
Western Railways and Central Railways were formed in Bombay; seperate Time Tables were setup.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/1/1990 | General Sunith Francis Rodrigues takes over as Chief of the Army Staff. |
| 4/24/1980 | Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief. |
| 11/9/1841 | Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), was born. |
| 12/23/1993 | PM announces Local Area Development Scheme by which each MP can sanction projects worth Rs.1 crore. |
| 6/3/1865 | George V, King of England (1910-36), was born. |
| 1/9/1922 | Har 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. |
| 10/25/1951 | First General Election of India begins. |
| 9/3/1916 | Annie Besant started 'Home Rule' movement. |
| 4/8/1925 | Kumar Gandharva (Shivputra Siddharamaiya Komkali), famous music director and singer, was born. |
| 1/20/1939 | Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, great Indian astronomer, was born. |
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