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24 February - India on this day23 events

1483

Sheikh Mirza, chieftain of a small state of Ferghana, was born in Turkmenistan.

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1867

Kedarnath Das, geat physiologist, was born.

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1880

Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born.

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1899

Maheshchandra Burjorjee Bilimoria, film distributor, was born.

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1922

Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG Test for India 1948), was born in Darkati, Punjab.

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1950

G.J.M.Gazdar, computational linguist, was born.

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1924

Mahatma Gandhi released from jail.

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1946

Mrs. Kashibai and Mrs. Babbai Lakshman, freedom fighters, were shot dead by the police.

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1948

The State of Junagarh, whose accession to India was protested by Pakistan in the UN Security Council, voted in favour of India in a popular referendum held on 20 February.

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1786

Charles Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India.

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1997

Charles Shobhaj, the notorious murder suspect, to be deported to France after 20 years in Tihar jail.

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1988

Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile.

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1995

A full Bench comprising Chief Justice M.M. Pareed Pillai, TV Ramakrishna and P. Shanmugam of the Kerala High Court quashed the words "incestuous adultery", "adultery coupled with cruelty" and "adultery coupled with desertion" contained in Section 10 of Indian (Christian) Divorce Act.

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1995

25 jawans die in an explosion in Brahmaputra Mail near Nilalong station about 200 km from Guwahati.

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1994

Sharp increase in freight rates in the 1994-95 Railway budget; Pre-budget Economic Survey puts GDP growth in 1993-94 at 3.8\%.

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1674

Prataprao Gujar, a great Maratha warrior at the time of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.

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1936

Laxmibai Tilak, famous marathi poet, passed away.

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1986

Rukmini Devi passed away.

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1957

General Election ( 2nd) of India begins.

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1961

Government of Madras province was renamed as Tamil Nadu.

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1995

Rishang Keishing (Cong-I) sworn in as the 15th CM of Manipur.

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1996

S. Korean President Kim Young Sam visits India.

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2000

The Subrahmanyam Committee report tabled in the Lok Sabha. The panel concluded that the Pakistan intrusion in Kargil took the Indian security establishment by surprise.

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