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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.
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| 8/18/1990 | Pandit Narayan Chaturvedi, senior Hindi litterateur, died. |
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