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Historical Event on 3/24/1855
First long distance telegram message was opened between Agra and Calcutta at a distance of 1,300 km.

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2/25/1968	Judge Mohammad Hidayatullah became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 16/12/1970.
11/16/1958	India and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement to exchange Soviet industrial and agricultural equipment for farm commodities at Moscow.
3/26/1989	Eighth Antarctica Expedition returns after erecting India's second permanent manned station 'Maitri'.
11/17/1953	Sadanand Swaminathan, famous journalist, passed away.
7/19/1965	Batukeshwar Dutt, great revolutionary, passed away.
12/28/1931	The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him.
2/1/1855	East India Railways were held for formal inauguration; Howrah station was opened.
11/19/1991	Two national commissions on women set up.
1/4/1999	Karnataka's Farah Khan made it three-in-a-row in the National ladies billiards championship in Delhi.
11/30/1989	Congress (I) emerges largest party in Lok Sabha by winning 193 seats, Congress (I) rule in Karnataka and Veerendra Patil made the Chief Minister.

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Historical Event on 3/24/1855 First long distance telegram message was opened between Agra and Calcutta at a distance of 1,300 km.

Historical Event on 3/24/1855
First long distance telegram message was opened between Agra and Calcutta at a distance of 1,300 km.