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Historical Event on 4/24/1980
Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/3/1966 | Hurricane strikes Bengal, killing 1,000. |
| 4/18/1914 | Jamshedji R. Patel, cricket Test Umpire for 9 tests from 1948-59, was born in Mumbai. |
| 4/23/1992 | Satyajit Ray, internationally famous Indian film producer-director, Bharat Ratna Awardee, passed away at the age of 70. |
| 4/23/1992 | Akbar, great Mughal Emperor, won Kabul. |
| 7/1/1999 | The Rashtriya Janata Party (RJP) of Shankersinh Waghela merges with Congress(I). |
| 1/29/1780 | Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta . |
| 11/29/1928 | Krishnaji Narayan Aathaly, great Marathi litterateur and editor, passed away. |
| 2/22/1997 | India outplays Poland in the final hockey `Test' and win series 2-0. |
| 5/2/1930 | Riots break out in Amritsar. |
| 7/1/1990 | General Sunith Francis Rodrigues takes over as Chief of the Army Staff. |
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