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Historical Event on 3/24/1991
Bhau Samarth, internationaly famed painter, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/28/1902 | Gandhiji left for Rangoon visit. Stays for a month with Gokhale at Calcutta. Returns to Rajkot and settles down to practise. |
| 1/3/1985 | Azharuddin scores 110 in first Test innings. |
| 7/14/1997 | Eleventh Presidential election with K.R.Narayanan and T.N. Seshan as candidates; 732 out of 775 MPs and 3893 out of 4058 MLAs cast their ballots. |
| 6/1/1842 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali officer and litterateur, was born. |
| 8/9/1942 | The Congress at its Bombay session passed the famous Quit India resolution, calling for mass struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale, under the leadership of Gandhiji. He stressed that ""We shall either free India or die in the attempt; We shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery""; popularly known as ""Do or Die"". But before the Congress could start the movement, the government arrested all the major leaders and the Congress was declared illegal. Spontaneous popular revolts broke out with the battle cry of 'British Quit India'. |
| 7/15/1920 | Earthquake in Delhi. |
| 4/17/1946 | Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, greatest social reformer, freedom fighter, educationist, politician, master, scholar of Sanskrit and President of India, passed away. |
| 10/4/1999 | Kerala High Court orders Election Commission to booth-wise counting. The EC is likely to move the Supreme Court against this order. |
| 2/3/1994 | Akash' missile launched successfully. |
| 5/23/1903 | Gemini Roy, famous Painter, joined Government School of Arts and Crafts at Calcutta. |
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