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Historical Event on 7/1/1856

In south, the first line was opened by the Madras Railway Company. It ran between Veyasarpandy and Walajah Road (Arcot), a distance of 63 miles.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/30/1699Guru Govind Singh the 10th Guru of Sikh's established 'Khalsa Panth'.
7/5/2000The Prime Minister rules out restoring pre-1953 status to Jammu and Kashmir.
1/5/1952U.S. signs five-year accord to give India $ 50 mil. for economic development in New Delhi.
5/25/1899Nazrul Islam, revolutionary and Bengali poet, was born in Churulia village of Burdwan district.
5/9/1874First horse-drawn tram car started running in Mumbai.
2/3/1997Major fire reduces Calcutta Book Fair to ashes.
9/19/2000Karnam Malleswari becomes the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal (bronze) at the Sydney Olympics.
1/1/1944Sir Edwin Lutyens, the Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, died.
11/20/1947Parliament gives Indian government censorship powers over press at New Delhi.
12/12/1971The first aerial victory was when MiG-21FLs of No. 47 Squadron shot down a PAF F-104 over the Gulf of Kutch and this was followed by three more victories in quick succession on 17 December, when MiG-21FLs of No. 29 Squadron escorting HF-24 Maruts, shot down intercepting F-104s near Uttarlai in the Rajasthan desert in gun-missile encounters, while a third F-104, on an intruding mission, was shot down by another MiG 21FL of No.29 Squadron.