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24-April-1311

General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India.

24-April-1888

Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief minister of Assam and Governor of Madras, was born at Hajo.

24-April-1918

Durgaprasad Dhar, former Vice President of Planning Commission, was born.

24-April-1929

First non-stop flight from England to India takes-off.

24-April-1932

450 people seized by British for defying ban on Indian National Congress.

24-April-1942

Shri Dinanath Mangeshkar, famous Marathi singer, nationalist, musician and actor, passed away at the age of 41.

24-April-1944

Shivprasad Gupta, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, passed away.

24-April-1959

Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.

24-April-1965

Kosi Barrage inaugurated by King Mahendra of Nepal.

24-April-1966

Margashayam Venkataramana, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 1989), was born in Secunderabad.

24-April-1972

Jamini Roy, Padmabhushan awardee and famous painter, passed away.

24-April-1973

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian capt at 23), was born in Bombay.

24-April-1974

Ramdhari Singh alias 'Dinkar', veteran famous Hindi writer and poet, passed away.

24-April-1980

Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief.

24-April-1993

Congress dissidents K. N. Singh, Natwar Singh, K. L. Fotedar and Shiela Dikshit suspended.

24-April-1993

IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar.

24-April-1994

S. L. Kirloskar, 91, industrial magnate, passed away in Pune.

24-April-1995

K. Karunakaran elected to Rajya Sabha.

24-April-1996

BSE index reaches 3869.87, a new 18-month high.

24-April-1996

Indian Express launches Vizag (17th) edition.

24-April-1996

SC holds that bank managers acting beyond their authority in allowing overdrafts and passing cheques would be amounted to committing misconduct.

24-April-1998

India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah, beating Australia by six wickets in the final.

24-April-1998

24 persons are killed and 28 injured when some bogies of a goods train break free and roll back to collide with the stationary Manmad-Kacheguda Express at Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra.

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