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Historical Event on 10/3/1984

India's longest distance train Himsagar Express (from Jammu Tavi to Kanya Kumari) was first flagged.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/1/1927Justice Savyasachi Mukherjee was born.
5/23/1990Banarasi Das Gupta elected CM of Haryana following Om Prakash Chautala's resignation.
11/17/1857Sir Colin Campbell, British Army Officer, managed to supress Indian Mutiny sepoys at Lucknow.
1/11/1990R. Shekhar became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 14/12/90).
1/26/1929Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence.
5/5/1932Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, passed away.
5/5/1932Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398.
10/16/1896Govindas Seth, hindi litterateur and politician, was born.
10/10/1970Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.
11/5/1994Russi Modi appointed Chairman of Air India and Indian Airlines.