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Historical Event on 10/24/2000

Sitaram Kesri (81), former Congress President, died at the AIIMS in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/4/1964The First Diesel Engine came out of the Varanasi Diesel Engine Carshed.
2/13/1861Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians.
1/15/1998Gulzari Lal Nanda, Gandhian freedom fighter and twice acting Prime Minister in 1964 and 1966, died in Ahmedabad at the age of 100 years.
9/19/2000Gopi Chand of India falls to Henderawan of Indonesia in the quarter-finals of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.
9/19/2000Babur Shah was declared as the Emperor of Dehli.
2/12/1928Bardoli Satyagrah (Gujarat) was led by Vallabhbhai Patel against the Bombay government's decision to hike the revenue on cotton by 22 percent while its prices declined Internationally. Ultimately the govenment quashed the hike.
6/13/1731Swedish East India Company was formed. For 15 years King Fredrick of Sweden gave the Company a charter.
3/29/1954Indian Institute of Public Administration inaugurated.
5/1/1992C. Arjun, famous music director, passed away.
11/2/1999BJP suffers jolt in Bihar as it fails to win a single seat it contested in the October 28 poll to four Lok Sabha seats.