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Historical Event on 2/24/1997
Charles Shobhaj, the notorious murder suspect, to be deported to France after 20 years in Tihar jail.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/17/1955 | Indian Standard's Institute started working to control the quality of Indian products and the ISI mark was issued to quality products. |
| 5/30/1826 | The first Hindi newspaper 'Udant Martand' was published from Calcutta under the Editorship of Pandit Shridhar Shukla. |
| 1/4/1940 | Shrikant Sinkar, famous Marathi novelist, was born. |
| 9/10/1999 | Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final. |
| 5/20/1964 | P. T. Usha, famous sprinter, was born. |
| 9/7/1931 | The Second Round Table conference began in London and lasted till 1st December, 1931. Congress was solely represented by Gandhi and Muslim League by Sir Allama Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam. Two committees were set up to carry out the work of the conference on Federal Structure and Minorities. Gandhi was the member of both the committees. He claimed that being the sole representative of the Congress, he represented the whole of India. Quaid-e-Azam replied that Muslims are a separate nation. Sir Shafi demanded that the 14 points of Quaid-e-Azam be incorporated in the future constitution. |
| 10/27/1997 | UP ministry expanded by inducting 70 new members thus taking the total number of a record 93 members. |
| 1/8/1994 | Kamkothi Parmacharya Shri Chandrashekhar Saraswati, 68th Shankaracharya of Kanchi maat and Indian Saint, passed away at the the of 99. |
| 6/8/1906 | Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (bro of Wazir Ali, India's 1st Test 1932), born at Jullunder. |
| 10/12/1995 | Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI. |
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