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Historical Event on 3/24/1855
First long distance telegram message was opened between Agra and Calcutta at a distance of 1,300 km.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/29/1972 | Construction work of Metro Train in Calcutta commenced. |
| 11/1/1990 | JD Government in Gujarat, headed by Chimanbhai Patel, defeats no-confidence motion with Congress (I) support. |
| 3/5/1999 | Geet Sethi won the 1999 World matchplay billiards championship in Midsomer Norton. |
| 9/21/1994 | Ramkrishna Bajaj, freedom fighter and veteran industrialist, passed away. |
| 8/5/1950 | Gopinath Bardoloi, architect of modern Assam, freedom fighter and leader, passed away. |
| 3/31/1980 | Nirmal Mukherjee, the last Indian Civil Service Officer, retired from service as Cabinet Secretary. |
| 4/27/1907 | Fearing uprising in Punjab, British arm volunteers. |
| 11/14/2000 | Jharkhand, the 28th State of the Indian Union, comes into being and the new Governor, Prabhat Kumar, and the Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi, take office. |
| 2/14/1901 | Sambamurty Pichhu, music teacher, was born. |
| 2/25/1999 | The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively. |
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