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Historical Event on 5/21/1927

Cargo Transportation service started between Calcutta and Bagdogra.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/6/1996Benazir Bhutto,Pakistan PM, gives green signal for opening up trade with India.
4/26/1993Indian Airlines' IC 491 crashes at Aurangabad, killing 55 passengers.
5/5/1998Yashwant Sinha and Madan Lal Khurana, Union Ministers, are discharged in the hawala case.
2/1/2000The Centre decides to place almost all items under the automatic approval route for foreign direct investment and NRI and OCB investments.
6/8/1948Malabar Princess', Air India's first international flight, takes off from Bombay to London via Cairo and Geneva. This was weekly air service was started between India to United Kingdom.
5/29/1972Prithviraj Kapoor, famous film actor, passed away.
3/24/1974Lokprabha weekly started its publication.
7/13/1930Swarup Kishan Reu, cricket test umpire for 17 tests from 1978-85, was born in Delhi and was honoured by Padmashree in 1986. He joins the record of umpiring most Tests for India.
4/14/1990Veena Vidwan S. Balachander passed away.
1/16/1924In a tragic ship wreck, Kumaran Asan, famous Malayalam poet & eminent social worker, died.