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Historical Event on 4/24/1996
Indian Express launches Vizag (17th) edition.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/21/1953 | Tillaya Dam and Bokaro Power Station opened by the PM. |
| 1/15/1996 | Restoration of the original name of the city as ""Mumbai"" for Bombay Vide Maharashtra Act No, XXV of 1996. |
| 4/12/1912 | Kirpal Singh Narang, social reformer and educationist, was born at Amritsar (Punjab). |
| 4/3/1670 | Tanaji Malusure, right hand of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, passed away during the battle of Singhgad fort. |
| 8/13/1953 | Durgabai Deshmukh became the founder Chairperson of Central Social Welfare Board, which involved several voluntary organisations and workers carrying out programs like education, training and rehabilitation of needy women etc. |
| 11/11/1980 | The Hindustan Times says the 'British have reverted to what they basically are & a small, little people with small, little minds inhabiting a small, little island in the Atlantic.' |
| 7/25/1929 | Somnath Chatterjee, politician and lawyer, was born. |
| 6/23/1761 | Balaji Bajirao (Nanasaheb), third peshwa, died at Pune, after losing in the Third Battle of Panipat on 12 June. |
| 10/15/1931 | Avil Pakir Jalaluddin Abdul Kalam better known as "APJ", famous Indian scientist, was born in the temple town of Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu. He is the pioneer of India's missile programme and was awarded the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, in 1997, for his immense and valuable contribution to scientific research and modernisation of defence technol |
| 9/23/1996 | Sitaram Kesri elected provisional president of Congress (I). |
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