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Historical Event on 4/24/1918

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

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/3/1926Muslim-Hindu riots destroy temples, killing 12, wounding 100 in Calcutta.
4/23/1955Political Committee of Asian-African Conference at Bandung adopted an Indian resolution calling for a ban on atomic weapons.
12/5/1943The Japanese planes attack Calcutta port.
5/2/1907Riots break out in Rawalpindi and East Bengal, spreading to the Punjab.
4/4/1996Supreme Court rules that political parties without audited accounts cannot take advantage of an election law that exempts tax expenditure on candidates.
1/29/1996S.R. Bommai was replaced by Laloo Prasad Yadav as Janata Dal president.
6/1/1992Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Academy established at Satara.
5/21/1991Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated by human bomb explosion plotted by LTTE at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, 40 km from Madras, at 10.20 P.M.
2/10/1986Pope John Paul II ends visit to India.
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.