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Historical Event on 4/14/1979

Sanjiva Reddy,President, flagged off the first electric train in Madras.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/20/1978Riots in many Indian cities in protest against Indira Gandhi's imprisonment.
6/4/1994Army successfully test-fires the short range surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi'.
5/11/1911Shrimati Lalitadevi, wife of second Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri, was born.
6/24/1974India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins.
11/5/1931M. G. Subramaniam, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1983-84, was born in Karnataka.
5/9/1998Playback singer Talat Mehmood, 75, passed away in Mumbai.
2/1/1969Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta.
1/18/1997India's first electric car 'Reva' launched in Bangalore.
4/10/1880C.Y. Chintamani, renowned journalist, was born.
1/4/1992The goverment promulgates an ordinance to prevent countermanding of election in the event of death of independent candidates.