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Historical Event on 5/1/1998

The Konkan Railway running for 760-km is dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This was an extention from Ratnagiri.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/14/1936Kamalkant Bhattacharya, Assamese thinker and author, passed away.
1/8/1884Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society.
10/27/1989The XIV-World Congress of Neurology was held in New Delhi under the auspices of the World Federation of Neurology and Neurology Society of India. (21-10-89).
9/17/1999India and the United States begin high level consultations to find ways on countering terrorism.
8/15/1955Satyagrah started for the freedom of Goa.
3/1/1987A Pakistani official quoted as saying, ""Pakistan has nuclear bomb capabilities at New Delhi"".
11/23/1897Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri, writer, was born.
3/15/1993Vinod Kambli scores 227 vs Zimbabwe. This was his second consecutive Test 200.
3/15/1993Akbar responded with alacrity and arrived at Ahmadabad and made adequate arrangements for its administration.
4/13/1994United Arab Emirates lost to India in its first official ODI.