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Historical Event on 1/8/1906

Howrah Railway Station, Calcutta, was inaugurated.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/11/1988Dr. Nagendra Singh, 74, President of the International Court of Justice, passed away in Hague.
12/11/1988Akbar won the war near Ahmedabad and captured Gujrat.
1/15/1996Restoration of the original name of the city as ""Mumbai"" for Bombay Vide Maharashtra Act No, XXV of 1996.
12/23/1959Edward Fredrick Lindlewood Halifax ""Irwin Lord"", English viscount and Governor General of India (1925-1931), died at the age of 78.
11/2/1999BJP suffers jolt in Bihar as it fails to win a single seat it contested in the October 28 poll to four Lok Sabha seats.
2/4/1944Japanese attack Indian Seventh Army at Burma
3/14/1967Vijay Yadav, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper between More & Mongia), was born in Gonda.
7/3/1908Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested as a traitor by the Britishers.
2/28/1859Surbhi, farmer lady of Dholi Bavli, Central India, who was arrested for helping her son Bheema Nayak in the freedom movement and was jailed in Mahamandaleshwar jail, passed away.
2/28/1967General Election ( 4th) of India ends.