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Historical Event on 12/31/1999

This Indian Railway, carries more than 11 million passengers in a day, runs on more than 62,000 route kilometers and more than 1,07,000 track kilometers daily. This is the largest Railway System under Single Management.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/4/1880Bhupendranath Dutt, Bengali litterateur and politician, was born.
6/24/1990Defence scientists successfully test fired country's first third generation anti-tank missile 'NAG'.
7/24/1992Universal Poetry Foundation' was established at Pune.
7/15/1936Hridayanand 'Kumaresh' Tiwari, great Hindi poet and writer, was born in Reoti, U.P.
8/11/2000Usha Mehta, great Gandhian, passed away.
5/18/1999R. B. Sapre, India's first national chess champion, died in Mumbai.
5/13/1791Lord Cornwallis retreated back to Madras after the battle of Arikera.
4/26/1999The President dissolves Lok Sabha and orders fresh elections.
7/28/1924Many deaths were reported and several villages were destroyed due to floods in the south.
7/16/1905A decision to boycott British goods was taken at Bagarhat.