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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 04/24/1311 |
General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India. |
| 04/24/1858 |
Kunwar Singh, revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, passed away. He fought his last battle near Jagdishpur, Bihar on April 23, 1858 and defeated the Britishers but was deeply wounded. He also organised the national rebels. |
| 04/24/1888 |
Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief minister of Assam and Governor of Madras, was born at Hajo. |
| 04/24/1918 |
Durgaprasad Dhar, former Vice President of Planning Commission, was born. |
| 04/24/1929 |
First non-stop flight from England to India takes-off. |
| 04/24/1932 |
450 people seized by British for defying ban on Indian National Congress. |
| 04/24/1942 |
Shri Dinanath Mangeshkar, famous Marathi singer, nationalist, musician and actor, passed away at the age of 41. |
| 04/24/1944 |
Shivprasad Gupta, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, passed away. |
| 04/24/1959 |
Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie. |
| 04/24/1965 |
Kosi Barrage inaugurated by King Mahendra of Nepal. |
| 04/24/1966 |
Margashayam Venkataramana, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 1989), was born in Secunderabad. |
| 04/24/1972 |
Jamini Roy, Padmabhushan awardee and famous painter, passed away. |
| 04/24/1973 |
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian capt at 23), was born in Bombay. |
| 04/24/1974 |
Ramdhari Singh alias 'Dinkar', veteran famous Hindi writer and poet, passed away. |
| 04/24/1980 |
Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief. |
| 04/24/1993 |
Congress dissidents K. N. Singh, Natwar Singh, K. L. Fotedar and Shiela Dikshit suspended. |
| 04/24/1993 |
IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar. |
| 04/24/1994 |
S. L. Kirloskar, 91, industrial magnate, passed away in Pune. |
| 04/24/1995 |
K. Karunakaran elected to Rajya Sabha. |
| 04/24/1996 |
BSE index reaches 3869.87, a new 18-month high. |
| 04/24/1996 |
Indian Express launches Vizag (17th) edition. |
| 04/24/1996 |
SC holds that bank managers acting beyond their authority in allowing overdrafts and passing cheques would be amounted to committing misconduct. |
| 04/24/1998 |
India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah, beating Australia by six wickets in the final. |
| 04/24/1998 |
24 persons are killed and 28 injured when some bogies of a goods train break free and roll back to collide with the stationary Manmad-Kacheguda Express at Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/25/1962 | Dasganu (Ganesh Dattatreya Sahastrabuddhe), modern Marathi saint and poet, passed away. |
| 08/01/1932 | Meena Kumari, film actress, was born. |
| 04/22/1994 | Sushil, great Jain Muni Acharya, passed away. |
| 12/12/1992 | Jasu Patel, cricketer, 29 wkts for India and best 9-69 vs Australia, passed away. |
| 03/11/1994 | The Supreme Court upholds sacking of BJP Governments; Balasaheb Deoras quits as RSS Chief; Rajendra Singh alias Rajju Bhaiya to succeed. |
| 10/21/1916 | Dinkarrai Dhirajlal Desai, cricket Test Umpire for 3 tests from 1955-57, was born in Gujarat. |
| 08/12/1979 | Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people. |
| 10/31/1919 | Jaikisan Harivallabhdas, great industrialist, was born. |
| 12/06/1756 | British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India. |
| 12/06/1997 | Nine persons killed and over 60 injured in bomb blasts in three trains which left Chennai. Blasts occurred in Tiruchi, Erode (Tamil Nadu) and Trissur in Kerala. |
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