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Historical Event on 4/24/1918
Durgaprasad Dhar, former Vice President of Planning Commission, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/11/1984 | India's first modern boas `Jalusha' started from Vishakhapattanam. |
| 2/28/1985 | M.G. Katre became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/10/89). |
| 6/17/1917 | Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba started living at Hriday Kunj in Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad. |
| 10/30/1928 | Madhav Vinayak Gothoskar, cricket Test umpire for 14 tests from 1972-84, was born in Mumbai. |
| 9/14/1923 | Ram Jethmalani, famous law expert and politician, was born. |
| 2/24/1867 | Kedarnath Das, geat physiologist, was born. |
| 7/31/1993 | Transport operators begin nation-wide strike. |
| 6/19/1901 | Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician, was born at Hosangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He made many valuable contributions to the subject. He discovered new codes for telecommunication. In 1976, America's highest honour to a scientist came to Bose as he was elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences. |
| 9/27/1989 | The second test launching of India's surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi', from Sri Harikota was successful. |
| 7/2/1999 | Sahara India, sponsor of the Sahara Cup annual cricket series between India and Pakistan in Canada, withdrew sponsorship in view of the Kargil conflict. |
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