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Historical Event on 10/24/1954
Rafi Ahmad Kidwai, Congress leader, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/24/1958 | First international Film Festival started in Mumbai. |
| 5/19/1908 | Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born. |
| 5/19/1908 | Emperor Humayun, son of Babar, was born in Kabul. |
| 2/25/1998 | Tendulkar's first first-class 204* for Mumbai vs Australia. |
| 12/31/1996 | Gold import policy liberalised. |
| 4/11/2000 | Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'. |
| 3/27/1977 | The government revoked the national Emergency promulgated on Dec. 3, 1971. |
| 7/1/1955 | S. P. Kampani, was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 18-07-1957. |
| 1/21/1943 | Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by British police. |
| 7/2/1941 | Muhammad Baqa Jilani, one Test for India, 0-55, died at the age of 29. |
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