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Historical Event on 01/24/1556
Humayun died at Delhi. Two days earlier he had slipped on the staircase of a library being constructed at the Old Fort.
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| 4/8/1897 | Henrich Von Stephan, famous General Postal Union and freedom fighter, passed away. |
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| 8/17/1911 | Y.R. Lokurkar, senior journalist, was born. |
| 1/9/1923 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur, passed away. |
| 4/13/1984 | Kerala Government drops Silent Valley Project and declares the entire area a national park. |
| 11/3/1998 | Mamta Banerjee, the TMC leader resigns from Central Coordinating Committee of the BJP and Allies to highlight the issue of spiralling vegetable prices, but Vajpayee refused to accepts the resignation. |
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