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Historical Event on 2/24/1922
Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG Test for India 1948), was born in Darkati, Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/5/1663 | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj attacked Shahistekhan at Pune. |
| 11/14/2000 | Jharkhand, the 28th State of the Indian Union, comes into being and the new Governor, Prabhat Kumar, and the Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi, take office. |
| 1/24/1980 | J.S. Bawa became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 28/02/85). |
| 6/2/1992 | The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 6/15/1953 | Internal Air Route Corporation of India was established. |
| 2/28/1928 | C. V. Raman invented 'Raman Effect' of scattered light, which led him in achieving the 'Nobel Prize'. |
| 3/15/1931 | M.I.Mohammad Ghose, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-80, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 7/21/1936 | Vasantrao Vishnu Limye, senior journalist and President of 'Ratnagiri District Parishad', was born. |
| 7/29/1911 | Mohan Bagan became the first Indian football team to win the I.F.A. Shield. |
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