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Historical Event on 2/24/1674
Prataprao Gujar, a great Maratha warrior at the time of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/5/1931 | Gandhiji leaves England for India. |
| 10/14/1947 | Narsingh Chintaman Kelkar, great litterateur, politician and editor, died. |
| 9/22/1931 | Gandhi meets Charlie Chaplin in London. |
| 4/11/1942 | All-India Congress party rejects British offer of dominion status at New Delhi. |
| 1/3/1836 | Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava--a zamindar of Aligarh-- and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia. |
| 3/31/1997 | Forex reserves touch a record $ 22.36 billions. |
| 7/1/1882 | Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, great professor, politician, physician, leader and veteran nationalist, was born at Patna. |
| 10/23/1883 | Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, a pioneer in Indian Geology, was born at Surat in Gujarat. |
| 10/28/1977 | Shantiprasad Jain, industrialist, died. |
| 7/29/1980 | India won Gold Medal in Hockey at Moscow Olympics. |
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