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Historical Event on 2/24/1922
Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG Test for India 1948), was born in Darkati, Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/12/1964 | Maithili Sharan Gupta, famous Indian poet, Hindi litterateur, writer, social worker, patriot and Padma Bhushan awardee, died. |
| 5/21/1927 | Cargo Transportation service started between Calcutta and Bagdogra. |
| 4/12/1621 | Guru Teg Bahadur Singh, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 8/11/1908 | Khudiram Bose was hanged on this day in Central Jail at Mujaffarpur, Bihar at the age of 19 years. He along with Prafulla Chaki had planned to bomb the carriage supposed to be carrying Kingsford, unfortunately he was betrayed and was caught and finally was sentenced to death and hanged. This day is observed as ""Martyr's Day"" in memory of the great freedom fighter. Even today the soul stirring songs composed in his honour are sung by Bengali folk-singers. |
| 8/11/1908 | Vasco De Gama, Portuguese navigator who discovered India, died in Cochin. |
| 11/12/1885 | Firodia Kundanmal Shobhachand, politician and Gandhian, was born. |
| 4/2/1970 | Meghalaya, an autonomous hilly state, was established after dividing the hilly areas of Assam. |
| 4/2/1948 | Defence Minister announces the establishment of the National War Academy in Kharakvasla, Poona. |
| 2/14/1929 | Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. |
| 11/16/1860 | First group of Indian worker's reached Natal, South Africa. |
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