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Historical Event on 4/24/1980
Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/24/1980 | The Sultan, losing his hold over the army and some members of his aristocracy, very wisely abdicated in favour of his brother Ahmad, who is famous in Deccan history as Ahmad Shah Wali. |
| 12/3/1971 | Indo-Pakistan war begins. On the same day National Emergency was declared by the President of India due to war between both the countries. |
| 12/31/1900 | Krishna Narayan Ratanjankar, famous musician and writer of Tan Sangrah in three parts and Abhinav Geet Mangari, was born in Bombay. |
| 3/2/1996 | Malabar University (Kerala) comes into being. |
| 12/10/1945 | Aust Services lose third Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts. |
| 12/10/1952 | World's first official Family Planning programme launched in India. |
| 1/8/1993 | FERA restrictions removed, resident Indians allowed to keep as much as $500. |
| 1/18/1977 | Morarji Desai and other opposition leaders were released from jail and Lok Sabha was dissolved by the president during the emergency period. |
| 12/11/1999 | Leander Paes capped a brilliant year with his successive Challenger title, this time in Jaipur, beating Barry Cowan in the final. |
| 3/21/2000 | The 10,000 bond scheme for short-term visitors to the UK will not be applied to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, said British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Keith Vaz. |
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