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Historical Event on 3/11/1881

Ashley Eden unveiled in Calcutta Town Hall the first statue of Indians Ram Nath Tagore and Dwarkanath Tagore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/11/1993Gen. K.V. Krishna Rao returns to Jammu & Kashmir as Governor.
5/17/1949India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations.
10/1/1958Metric System of weights was introduced in India.
12/13/1999The Railways announces concessions for senior citizens, students upto Class X and the poor.
5/2/195340 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers.
4/4/1996Supreme Court rules that political parties without audited accounts cannot take advantage of an election law that exempts tax expenditure on candidates.
7/17/1935Dr. Ram Babu Gupta, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1986-89, was born at Delhi.
7/1/1996RBI reduces cash reserve ratio to 12\%.
10/16/1990Om Shivpuri, famous film and theatre artist, died.
5/18/1998India talks with the US on the nuclear tests.