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Historical Event on 4/24/1929
First non-stop flight from England to India takes-off.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/10/1963 | Gold Control Measures Plan was started by the Government of India. |
| 11/3/1998 | Mamta Banerjee, the TMC leader resigns from Central Coordinating Committee of the BJP and Allies to highlight the issue of spiralling vegetable prices, but Vajpayee refused to accepts the resignation. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 8/7/1887 | Kasturi Shriniwas Iyengar, politician and journalist, was born. |
| 2/25/1840 | Vinayak Konddev Oak, Marathi litteratewur, was born. |
| 2/25/1840 | Muhammad of Bin Quasim (Kasim), Arabs, attacked on Sindh and captured it. Muhammad defeated and killed King Dahir, Hindu king, at Rawar. |
| 4/27/1878 | Calcutta University started Women's Education, and allowed women to appear in the Entrance Examination. |
| 4/1/1986 | Delhi beat Haryana by innings and 141 runs to win the Ranji Trophy. |
| 4/1/1986 | Saint Namdev passed away. |
| 8/9/1970 | Trailokyanath Chakravarty died in Delhi. |
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