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Historical Event on 2/24/1988
Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/17/1618 | First English Ambassador Sir Thomas Roe returned to England after meeting Emperor Jahangir in his court. |
| 8/6/1997 | Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void. |
| 3/2/1996 | Tendulkar scores 137 for India vs Sri Lanka in Cricket World Cup, but India still lose the match. |
| 5/29/1658 | Dara Shukoh was utterly defeated by Aurangzeb in the battle of Samugarh near Agra. |
| 2/11/1933 | The outcome of the conference was that diarchy in the province was abolished, federal system was established in the center, Sindh was separated from Bombay, communal awards were started by the Prime Minister of Britain Sir Ramsay McDonald and White Paper on Indian reforms was published in 1933. |
| 4/15/1938 | Madhurima. Ch, educationist and artist, was born in Begusarai, Bihar . |
| 6/14/1947 | Congress Working Committee met at New Delhi to draft the resolution to be placed before All India Congress Committee on the acceptance of Mountbatten plan for the partition of India. |
| 1/18/1998 | India overtake a Pakistan total of 314 to win one-day final in Dhaka. |
| 12/20/1942 | Gangu Bai, freedom fighter from Kolhapur, died at Hinlang Jail because of police beating. |
| 2/6/1994 | World Marathi Chember of Commerce' established. |
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