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Historical Event on 2/1/1855

East India Railways were held for formal inauguration; Howrah station was opened.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/2/1949Press Trust of India' was established.
11/20/1907Railroad workers strike in India.
2/19/1986Computerised railway ticket reservation system was introduced in New Delhi Railway station.
2/28/1900Kondedera Madappa Kariappa, first General of independent India, was born.
10/20/1960Indian mountaineers reach the peak of Nanda Ghunti for the first time in the Kumaon Hills.
5/13/1857Sir Ronald Ross, bacteriologist, member of Indian Medical service, Nobel awardee and editor of 'Science Progress', was born at Almora, UP.
4/27/1918Gandhiji attends Viceroy's War Conference at Delhi and addresses it in Hindustani; subsequently tours Kaira District to raise recruits for army.
7/11/1630Rezabeebeth Sookeas Begum passed away.
12/5/1992V. P. Singh and hundreds arrested in Barabanki on the way to Ayodhya.
12/29/1885A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.