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Historical Event on 4/24/1996

Indian Express launches Vizag (17th) edition.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/28/1996India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in the first innings of the game.
1/30/1993Congress (I) MLA in Andhra Pradesh P. Balaraju and eight officials kidnapped by the outlawed People's War Group in Visakhapatnam district.
9/27/1972Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, passed away at the age of 80 at Bangalore.
9/19/2000Gopi Chand of India falls to Henderawan of Indonesia in the quarter-finals of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.
6/19/1979Morarji Desai resigns after split in Janata Party.
6/29/1924Ezra Laderman, NYC, composer (Jacob & the Indians), was born.
3/13/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as Viceroy of British India. He ruled upto 14th August, 1947.
7/6/1881Saint Gulabrao Maharaj was born in Vidarbha.
1/1/1880Money order system was introduced.
10/28/2000The Royal Canadian Mounted police arrest two Sikhs, Ripudaman Singh Malik (53) and Ajaib Singh Bagri (51), in Vancouver in connection with the downing of Air India Boeing 747 en route from Canada to London in 1985.