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Historical Event on 7/24/1993
Vajpayee elected leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/20/1997 | Basu Bhattacharya (65), film-maker, died in Mumbai. |
| 2/13/1856 | East India Company captured Lucknow along with Avadh Kingdom. |
| 7/1/1965 | Meerut University was established. |
| 5/27/1992 | M. L. Manchanda, AIR's Patiala engineer who was kidnapped by Babbar Khalsa militants, was found executed. |
| 2/7/1795 | Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies. |
| 10/14/1997 | Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit Amritsar and spend time at the Jallianwala Bagh and Golden Temple complex. |
| 2/22/1982 | South-South Conference opens in New Delhi. |
| 9/1/1956 | Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory. |
| 10/20/1962 | China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level. |
| 2/9/1951 | The first census of free India of enumeration work was started. |
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