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Historical Event on 3/4/1858

J. P. Walker, British Officer, along with 200 prisoners who were mainly from the Indian Sepoy Mutiny, sailed from Calcutta to start a new settlement in the Andaman Islands.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/26/1990Sangma Ministry quits in Meghalaya. B. B. Lyngdoh is new CM.
6/24/1986Government announced that unmarried mothers under its employment would also get maternity leave.
9/19/1950U. N. Assembly rejects Indian-Soviet proposal to admit Communist China in New York.
2/28/1997Finance Minister P. Chidambaram presents an action-packed budget for 1997-98.
3/21/1994Pakistan blocks access to Indian consulate in Karachi.
1/1/1948India raised voice against Pakistani infilatration in the country. A complaint was lodged in the Security Council of United Nation on Kashmir invasion.
10/18/1919W. A. Sangma, leader of Meghalaya, was born.
9/16/1931Political prisoners Tarkeshwar Dutta and Santosh Mitra were shot by an officer at Hijli detention camp near Kharagpur. They were arrested for attending the Hijli meeting.
10/12/1993National Environment Council with PM as chairperson set up.
5/26/1926Kankalta, freedom fighter, was born in Bargawadi village at Assam . She was shot when she tried to flur the Indian National Flag in Gopur, Assam.