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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
3/1/196325 Sqn, AF was formed with 04XAN-12 aircraft acquired from the erstwhile USSR. This was to supply lines to the Army in the Northern Sector encompassing J&K and Ladakh regions.
6/14/1947Congress Working Committee met at New Delhi to draft the resolution to be placed before All India Congress Committee on the acceptance of Mountbatten plan for the partition of India.
1/28/1950Supreme Court of India was inaugurated.
11/29/1999Delhi HC dismisses the CBI plea against Jain brothers in Hawala case.
6/24/1966Atul Chandrakant Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman from 1994), was born in Bombay.
4/30/1908Khudiram Bose along with Prafulla Chaki had planned to throw a bomb at a carriage supposed to be carrying the tyrannical magistrate Kingsford. Unfortunately he was betrayed and was caught and finally was sentenced to death.
3/3/1885Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt).
5/11/1985Booby (Doll) trap bomb kills 86 people in India.
9/11/1958India and Pakistan announced that most border disputes between the two countries had been settled.
11/21/1914Ujwala Mazumdar, freedom fighter and member of Bengal Valunteers, was born at Dhaka.