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Historical Event on 3/24/1991
Bhau Samarth, internationaly famed painter, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/15/1965 | Television starts in New Delhi. |
| 3/5/1851 | Geological Survey of India was established in Calcutta. |
| 4/8/1887 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born. |
| 5/21/1935 | Quetta earthquake takes a heavy toll of life. |
| 9/4/1825 | Dadabhai Naoroji, first Indian in British parliament and merchant, was born at Navsari, Gujarat. He coined the word 'Swaraj'. |
| 11/24/1969 | Guru Nanak University established at Amritsar, Punjab. |
| 3/16/1946 | India calls Attlee's independence offer contradictory, 'a propaganda move'. |
| 4/11/1997 | 10-month-old Deve Gowde govt. at the centre voted out of power. 292 voting against the motion of confidence in Lok Sabha, 158 for it, 6 abstaining. |
| 7/22/1956 | Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing. |
| 2/20/1868 | Sisir Kumar, Basanta Kumar and Hemanta Kumar, three brothers, first published the 'Amrita Bazar Partika', a weekly issue in Bengali. |
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