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Historical Event on 6/3/1895
Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, historian and Indian diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance), was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/15/1854 | The first train of the East Indian Railways steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hoogly, which was at a distance of 24 miles. It was the first passenger train catering to public traffic. Officially, it was inaugurated in 1855. |
| 7/9/1755 | E Braddock, British General, was mortally wounded during French & Indian War. |
| 9/12/1995 | Heavy rainfall in the Himalaya region, resulting in landslide, claimed 70 lives near Kullu. |
| 5/19/1980 | T. N. Raina, former General of India, passed away. |
| 7/23/1964 | Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away. |
| 11/17/1994 | Dr. Harbhajan Singh, Punjabi poet, wins Saraswati Samman. |
| 4/26/1762 | Shyam Shastri, musician and a great artist of India, was born at Tiruvarur. |
| 9/29/1994 | Gulf nations suspend Indian flights on account of plague epidemic. |
| 10/26/1961 | Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October. |
| 11/5/1961 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York. This was the first ocassion when an Indian Prime Minister went to United States. |
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