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Historical Event on 3/4/1858
J. P. Walker, British Officer, along with 200 prisoners who were mainly from the Indian Sepoy Mutiny, sailed from Calcutta to start a new settlement in the Andaman Islands.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/19/1704 | Guru Govind Singh died. |
| 5/2/1996 | Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983. |
| 1/12/1990 | Upper age limit for Civil Services Examination raised from 26 to 28 years. |
| 9/7/1906 | Bank of India, the first Indian bank, was registered. |
| 1/22/1858 | Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was sentenced to death. |
| 1/12/1990 | Vimal Kumar and Madhumita Bisht retain National badminton titles. |
| 9/14/1992 | S. A. Banerjee, cricketer who played one Test for India in 1948 without scoring any runs but took 5 wkts, died. |
| 3/11/1992 | Dr. Anita B. Bose-Pfaff, daughter of Netaji, declines to accept the 'Bharat Ratna' conferred on her father. |
| 3/12/1988 | After 58 years in the commemoration of Dandi March, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi performed the 32 kms Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram. |
| 8/10/1992 | P. P. Thorat, retired Lt and General, died. |
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