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16 May
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1975 Sikkim, India's least populous state officially became a part of India. Sikkim was a sovereign Monarchical State in the eastern Himalayas. Later a protectorate of India, then followed by merger with India and official recognition as a state of India.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1929 The Oscars are awarded for the first time. The first Academy Awards were presented at a private dinner with about 270 attendees. Today, it is the world's most important entertainment awards ceremony.
- 1975 Japanese climber Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to conquer Mount Everest.
- 1984 Irwin Shaw, American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies, died in Davos, Switzerland.
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