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Historical Event on 2/24/1922
Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG Test for India 1948), was born in Darkati, Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/31/1997 | Election Commission agrees to grant national party status to Bahujan Samaj Party but asks it to give up its election symbol--elephant. |
| 2/15/1997 | Conference of Inter-Parliamentary Union in New Delhi. |
| 12/23/1944 | U C Joshi, cricketer (Sussex off-spinner 1970-74 from India), was born. |
| 11/15/1992 | Praveen Amre scores century (103) on Test Cricket debut vs South Africa at Durban |
| 8/19/1903 | Gangadhar Devram Khanolkar, biographer and critic, was born. |
| 10/27/1997 | UP ministry expanded by inducting 70 new members thus taking the total number of a record 93 members. |
| 2/6/1932 | Veena Das, revolutionary freedom fighter, shot Stenly Jackson, Governor of Calcutta at the convocation ceremony of B.A. degree, but Jackson was afraid and bend down, thus the aim was missed. |
| 7/12/1949 | Ban on RSS lifted on the assurance that it abjures violence. |
| 9/27/1703 | More than 8,000 people died in a cyclone in England. |
| 5/9/1996 | J. Jayalalitha, Tamil Nadu CM, resigns. |
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