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Historical Event on 4/16/1903
Kalka-Simla Railway line section was opened for public conveyance.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/15/1991 | General Election (10th) of India ends. In this election Indian National Congress won. |
| 12/25/1919 | Naushad, famous film music director, was born. |
| 10/12/1911 | Vijay Madhavji Merchant Thackersey, cricketer (all-time great Indian batsman), was born in Bombay. |
| 4/26/1920 | Srinivas Ramanujam, famous Indian mathematician, passed away at Chetpet in Madras. |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
| 3/29/1954 | Indian Institute of Public Administration inaugurated. |
| 3/28/1978 | Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe (1997), was born. |
| 8/4/1997 | Nilesh Kulkarni becomes the first Indian to take a wicket with his first ball in Test Cricket (Colombo). |
| 3/28/1994 | G-15 summit opens with only six heads of Government in New Delhi. |
| 4/2/1926 | The worst Hindu-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta. |
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