24 April - India on this day23 events
Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief minister of Assam and Governor of Madras, was born at Hajo.
Durgaprasad Dhar, former Vice President of Planning Commission, was born.
Margashayam Venkataramana, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 1989), was born in Secunderabad.
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian capt at 23), was born in Bombay.
S. L. Kirloskar, 91, industrial magnate, passed away in Pune.
Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.
General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India.
IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar.
BSE index reaches 3869.87, a new 18-month high.
SC holds that bank managers acting beyond their authority in allowing overdrafts and passing cheques would be amounted to committing misconduct.
24 persons are killed and 28 injured when some bogies of a goods train break free and roll back to collide with the stationary Manmad-Kacheguda Express at Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra.
India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah, beating Australia by six wickets in the final.
Shri Dinanath Mangeshkar, famous Marathi singer, nationalist, musician and actor, passed away at the age of 41.
Shivprasad Gupta, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, passed away.
Jamini Roy, Padmabhushan awardee and famous painter, passed away.
Ramdhari Singh alias 'Dinkar', veteran famous Hindi writer and poet, passed away.
Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief.
450 people seized by British for defying ban on Indian National Congress.
Congress dissidents K. N. Singh, Natwar Singh, K. L. Fotedar and Shiela Dikshit suspended.