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Historical Event on 3/24/1947
Lord Louis Mountbatten came to India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/11/1906 | Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'. |
| 5/7/1908 | Sudhabala alias Ermaline was born in Bombay. She was a film actress. Her first film was 'Hothal Padmini' (1925). Some of her films are Kicks of Kismet, Tained Virtue, Red Signal, Wise Fool, Hoor-E-Bagdad. |
| 10/10/1844 | Badruddin Taibjee, lawyer and leader, was born. |
| 2/3/1928 | Chandrasekhar Vaman Gadkari, cricketer (Indian batsman in 6 Tests 1953-55), was born at Pune. |
| 1/24/1937 | Gandhi announces that he will retire from politics. |
| 8/1/1672 | The East India Company and the English law was for the first time intorduced in India. It was set up as directed by the Court of Judicature. |
| 2/2/1986 | Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India. |
| 5/16/1994 | Phani Mujumdar, veteran film producer and director, passed away. |
| 9/20/1878 | Hindu"", an English weekly in Madras with G. S. Aiyer as its Editor, was first published with only 80 copies. |
| 11/8/1988 | Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize. |
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