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Historical Event on 4/24/1918
Durgaprasad Dhar, former Vice President of Planning Commission, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/25/1975 | Chandulal Shah, film maker, passed away. |
| 3/23/1931 | Bhagat Singh, Shivram Rajguru and Sukhdev, great freedom fighters and revolutionaries, were hanged for assasination of Saunders, Assistant Superintendent of Police in the Central Jail at Lahore. Bhagat Singh and his associates showed no signs of any fear as they kissed the noose, chanting ""Inquilab Zindabad"" (long live the revolution). |
| 5/2/1908 | Police in Calcutta discover a cache of explosives for use in alleged anarchist plot. |
| 12/17/1974 | Ustad Gulam Sabir, famous Sarangi player, died at Kanpur. |
| 12/11/1967 | 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed. |
| 12/7/1998 | A. B. Vajpayee questions Pakistan's decision to hand over part of occupied Kashmir to China and says the area belongs to India. |
| 9/1/1668 | Mumbai was handed over to East India Company by King of England. |
| 11/23/1926 | Satya Sai Baba, Hindu universalist renaissance charismatic guru, educationalist and worker of miracles, was born. |
| 6/1/1959 | N.G. Ranga resigned from the Indian National Congress and took up the leadership of the newly formed Swatantra Party. |
| 12/25/1861 | Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, freedom fighter and founder of Banaras Hindu University, was born at Allahabad. |
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