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Historical Event on 12/24/1984

Eigth General Elections of India began .

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/29/1939Hanumant Singh, cricketer (14 Tests for India-century on debut), was born in Banswara.
11/22/1915Mohandas Gandhi returns to India.
2/16/1994Military Museum established at Ahmadnagar.
9/21/1933Annie Besant, great social worker and founder of Home Rule Movement, passed away.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
8/29/1928Hiralal Ghisulal Gaikwad, cricket all-rounder who played the only test vs Pakistan, was born in Nagpur.
9/20/1857British troops conquered Delhi from the Mutineers.
11/22/1928British King George confined to bed with congested lung; Queen to take over duties.
3/1/1910The Dalai Lama is welcomed in Darjeeling.
4/22/1991IMF and the World Bank decide to grant $1 billion loan to India.