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Historical Event on 9/24/1932
Preetilata Waddedara, the first armed woman revolutionary, was hanged for ""Chatgaon Ammunitions Plot"".
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/22/2000 | Bhaktavar Lentin (72), former Judge of the Bombay High Court, died after a prolonged illness at his residence in Mumbai. |
| 2/28/1951 | Karsan Devji Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s), was born in Rajkot. |
| 11/5/1961 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York. This was the first ocassion when an Indian Prime Minister went to United States. |
| 10/2/1869 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) born to a Bania (trading caste) family at Porbander, Kathiawar. He was the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand alias Kaba Gandhi, Prime Minister successively in Porbunder, Rajkot and Vankaner States, and his fourth wife Putlibai. |
| 8/27/1978 | Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland. |
| 2/2/1958 | Family tradition still counts for something in Indian politics. Indira Gandhi, the only daughter of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the granddaughter of a statesman, has been elected president of the Congress party in India. Mrs. Gandhi will be installed into her new office next Sunday, and her job is not expected to be an easy one. The Congress party has been wracked by internal dissension and has been on the verge of collapse. It is hoped that Mrs. Gandhi, who is 41, will breath some new life into the party. Most of the politicians who have been arguing about the future of their party and country are fairly old. Mrs. Gandhi, who is known for her leftist sentiments, is expected to act quickly to put her own mark on party policies. |
| 3/2/1984 | Mother Teresa University inaugurated by Mother herself at Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu. |
| 8/25/1997 | Forest outlaw Veerappan seeks more time to decide on his surrender as per the terms of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka government. |
| 5/30/1999 | India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions. |
| 5/11/1970 | A bill for setting up of ""North Eastern Council"" passed. |
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