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Historical Event on 1/26/1882

Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/29/1984Indian Airlines Boeing 737 with 68 passengers and a crew of 6 hijacked in Lahore.
10/28/1977Shantiprasad Jain, industrialist, died.
3/8/1948Air India International was established for overseas services.
8/19/1994Rupee made fully convertible on current account.
5/11/1995In central Kashmir, militants burnt the Charar-e-Sherif shrine (the tomb of Sufi saint Sheikh Noorudin Noorani) built in 1460 by Zain-ul- Abidin.
3/15/1908Police shoot four people in rioting.
3/21/1997Geet Sethi regains Gold Flake Open billiards in Chennai.
5/16/1932Hundreds die in fighting between Muslims and Hindus at Bombay.
2/21/1953Tillaya Dam and Bokaro Power Station opened by the PM.
2/21/1672A French squadron under De la Haye encountered a fleet of the Dutch, who were in hostility with the French, near Cape Comorin.