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Historical Event on 9/6/1995

New broad gauge train ""Palace on Wheels"" started between Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/2/1996Tendulkar scores 137 for India vs Sri Lanka in Cricket World Cup, but India still lose the match.
9/29/2000India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics.
8/16/1922Raunaq Singh, great industrialist and philanthropist, was born at Daska.
3/17/1994Wali Mohammad Itto, former Speaker of J&K Assembly shot dead by militants.
6/1/1944Liladhar Jagudi, well known Hindi poet, passed away.
2/19/1919Arvind Gokhle, great Marathi story writer, was born.
2/19/1919Babur came to India , and conquered it through Sindh in his fifth attempt.
7/25/1987Ramaswamy Venkataraman became the eighth President of India. He held this office till July 25, 1992.
8/22/1922Alluri Seetaram Raju inspired and organised the tribals to wage a war against the British. Raju's army raided Chintapalli police station and there was regular warfare between him and the British forces.
11/18/1948Nearly 500 people were drowned when the ferry steamer Narayan River capsized and sank in the Ganga near Patna.