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Historical Event on 1/8/1906
Howrah Railway Station, Calcutta, was inaugurated.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/31/1885 | St. Stephen's Hospital was opened. It was the first hospital for women and children at Delhi. |
| 6/3/1972 | First British designed Indian built mordern warship of the Leander class, 'INS Nilgiri' commissioned Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was completely made in Mazgaon Dock, Mumbai. |
| 7/8/1972 | Sourav Chandidas Ganguly, cricketer (centuries in 1st two Tests for India 1996), was born in Calcutta. |
| 11/7/1995 | Lukose Leelamma at Pune sets record for 10,000m (Women) in 34.33.50. |
| 1/11/1613 | Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat. And the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth. |
| 8/22/1933 | Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years. |
| 9/29/1997 | Crown Prince of Spain, Felipe de Borbon, visits India. |
| 9/16/1931 | Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, popularly known as George Sudarshan, was born in Kottayam, Kerala. He was a physicist of world repute. |
| 8/5/1999 | Nisha Millet became the first Indian swimmer to receive the International Olympic Committee's Solidarity Scholarship, given to sportspersons with outstanding track record and possessing Olympic potential. |
| 11/24/1988 | Mizoram became the first Lok Sabha member. |
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