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Historical Event on 4/24/1965

Kosi Barrage inaugurated by King Mahendra of Nepal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/17/1996Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains.
7/22/1999J. H. Patel, Karnataka Chief Minister, recommends dissolution of the Assembly and the Governor Khurshid Alam Khan accepts it. Earlier Mr. Patel drops eight Ministers including the Deputy Chief Minister Siddharamiah.
7/11/1998Indians bag a silver and a bronze at the International Physics Olympiad in Reykjavik.
11/5/1999India's Aarthie Ramaswamy won the girl's under-18 crown in the World Youth Chess Festival in Oropesa, Spain. Koneru Humpy bagged the silver in girls' under-12.
3/16/1945Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, who was a revolutionary and brother of Swatantriya Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, passed away.
9/30/2000The Government appoints Dr. D.P.S. Seth as CMD of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
10/1/1997Ordinance promulgated to ban single digit or instant lotteries.
2/17/1998Delhi-Tamil Nadu Ranji Trophy super-league match in Chennai was abandoned owing to pitch tampering.
9/12/1971Jaikishen, famous Hindi film music director, died.
12/28/1981Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.