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Historical Event on 3/3/1859

A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/13/1963Babu Gulab Rai, famous hindi critic, passed away.
3/22/2000P. Shanmugham sworn in Chief Minister of Pondicherry.
1/10/1953Opening ceremony of Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research held.
7/30/1996Delhi High Court rejects Narasimha Rao's petition seeking quashing of 09 order of chief metropolitan magistrate summoning him to appear as co-accused in the $ 100,000 Lakhubhai cheating case.
10/2/1906Raja Ravi Verma died at Attingal near Trivandrum, Kerala. He is remembered for his artistic work in 'Ram Panchayatan', 'Vishwamitra-Menaka', 'Shakuntala writing a letter', 'Shiv Parvati'. A commemorative stamp was issued by the Postal Department on April 29, 1971 in his honour.
7/19/1993Girilal Jain, senior journalist, passed away.
1/1/1983This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Communications Year"".
9/5/1967Central Hindi Committee constituted under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister.
10/4/1857Shyamji Krishna Varma, freedom fighter, nationalist and patriot, was born at Mandvi village, Gujarat.
1/31/1946Subroto Guha, cricketer (right arm swing bowler for India 1967-69), was born in Calcutta.