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Historical Event on 2/24/1994
Sharp increase in freight rates in the 1994-95 Railway budget; Pre-budget Economic Survey puts GDP growth in 1993-94 at 3.8\%.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/12/1997 | India elected to executive board of UNESCO. |
| 8/22/1919 | Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born. |
| 8/18/1990 | Pandit Narayan Chaturvedi, senior Hindi litterateur, died. |
| 3/29/1992 | The expert committee recomends an autonomous council for the Jharkhand region of Bihar. |
| 11/3/1929 | Dr. Hemant Vishnu Inamdar, thesis writer and editor, was born. |
| 7/8/1888 | Fenardish Jyoki Antoniu, Konkani author and journalist, was born. |
| 10/3/1984 | India's longest distance train Himsagar Express (from Jammu Tavi to Kanya Kumari) was first flagged. |
| 6/13/1932 | Nirmalchandra Sen, great revolutionary, died. |
| 4/20/1991 | Ganesh Sadashiv Bhat, famous Marathi film director and President's Award winner of 1963, passed away. |
| 3/30/1929 | Weekly postal service across 5,000-miles by aeroplane started between England and India serving India, Egypt, Palestine and Iraq in London. |
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