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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
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Sheikh Mirza, chieftain of a small state of Ferghana, was born in Turkmenistan. |
| 2/24/1674 |
Prataprao Gujar, a great Maratha warrior at the time of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died. |
| 2/24/1786 |
Charles Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India. |
| 2/24/1867 |
Kedarnath Das, geat physiologist, was born. |
| 2/24/1880 |
Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born. |
| 2/24/1899 |
Maheshchandra Burjorjee Bilimoria, film distributor, was born. |
| 2/24/1922 |
Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG Test for India 1948), was born in Darkati, Punjab. |
| 2/24/1924 |
Mahatma Gandhi released from jail. |
| 2/24/1936 |
Laxmibai Tilak, famous marathi poet, passed away. |
| 2/24/1946 |
Mrs. Kashibai and Mrs. Babbai Lakshman, freedom fighters, were shot dead by the police. |
| 2/24/1948 |
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. |
| 2/24/1950 |
G.J.M.Gazdar, computational linguist, was born. |
| 2/24/1957 |
General Election ( 2nd) of India begins. |
| 2/24/1961 |
Government of Madras province was renamed as Tamil Nadu. |
| 2/24/1986 |
Rukmini Devi passed away. |
| 2/24/1988 |
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. |
| 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\%. |
| 2/24/1995 |
25 jawans die in an explosion in Brahmaputra Mail near Nilalong station about 200 km from Guwahati. |
| 2/24/1995 |
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. |
| 2/24/1995 |
Rishang Keishing (Cong-I) sworn in as the 15th CM of Manipur. |
| 2/24/1996 |
Naresh Chandra appointed India's ambassador to USA. |
| 2/24/1996 |
S. Korean President Kim Young Sam visits India. |
| 2/24/1997 |
Charles Shobhaj, the notorious murder suspect, to be deported to France after 20 years in Tihar jail. |
| 2/24/2000 |
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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