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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
1/31/1948Cities swept by riots in wake of Gandhi murder.
12/27/1987Vijaypal Singh sets a record for TJ in 16.79s at Trivandrum .
8/8/1911Following the end of a heavy monsoon, parts of India were hit by a cholera epidemic.
8/7/1934Gandhi begins a fast for penance following the violent treatment of a Hindu leader by some of his followers.
3/28/1996JKLF declared unlawful by central govt.
7/29/1994Opposition stalls parliament proceedings over the 'Action Taken Report' on JPC finding.
1/8/1895Ramchandra Sakharam Ruikar, freedom fighter, pioneer of the labour movement in India and President of All India Trade Union Congress, was born at Rui village, district Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
12/3/1971Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief.
5/3/1962Hundreds of Muslims are killed in clashes with Hindus in West Bengal.
4/27/1705Aurangzeb captured the Fort of Vagingera.