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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 |
| 8/16/1923 | Narayan Athavle, famous Marathi litterateur and journalist, was born. |
| 8/16/1923 | Saint Eknath, bhagwatbhakt, passed away. |
| 6/5/1929 | S.V. Subramanian, great Hindi writer, was born at Virakeralanpudur, Tamil Nadu. |
| 11/22/2000 | Chhota Rajan, Mumbai gangster, escapes from the custody of Thai authorities. |
| 4/27/1705 | Aurangzeb captured the Fort of Vagingera. |
| 12/10/1979 | Mother Teresa wins Nobel Peace prize. |
| 5/8/1997 | Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion. |
| 2/17/1883 | Vasudeo Balvant Phadke, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away in prison at Aden. |
| 10/21/1997 | Himachal Pradesh Assembly goes global with inauguration of its website on the Internet. |
| 2/10/1946 | Gandhiji revives 'Harijan' and allied group of weekly journals. |
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