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Historical Event on 4/16/1903

Kalka-Simla Railway line section was opened for public conveyance.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/12/1995Maramon Centenary Convention, (the biggest Christian gathering in Asia) begins in Kerala.
3/5/1993The government de-reserves the mining industry throwing it open to private sector as well as to foreign investment.
7/29/1748Boscawen landed 25 km south of Pondicherry.
10/26/1890Martyr Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was born at Allahabad. He was also the editor of revolutionary weekly 'Pratap'.
1/7/1987Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket. At 28, he was the youngest cricketer to accomplish this feat.
2/19/1993German Chancellor Helmut Kohl receives the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding from the President.
5/19/1954The Govt. of India constituted a National Film Board.
1/23/1997Statue of Subhash Bose unveiled inside Parliament House.
3/7/2000A. Madhava Reddy, Andhra Pradesh Panchayati Raj Minister, dies in a landmine blast at Ghatkesar village in Ranga Reddy district.
3/10/1954The history of 104 HU, the most prestigious and the oldest Helicopter Unit of the IAF, is studded with more than four decades of glorious past and yeomen service rendered to the country. One-O-Four was raised as Helicopter Flight at Palam on 10th March 1954.