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Historical Event on 12/24/1998
A.B.Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces increased cash awards for Asian Games medallists.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/5/1892 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford. |
| 8/22/1994 | Two dozen Mahar soldiers were ambushed when the Indian contingent was trying to stem the war in Somalia. Seven, including a JCO, lost their lives. |
| 9/1/1893 | Kashinath Tryambak Telang, first Maharashtrian Chief Justice of Mumbai High Court, died. |
| 10/15/1943 | Baba Kanshi Ram, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away. |
| 2/3/1905 | Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur. |
| 5/31/1947 | Gandhiji declares that peace must precede partition, and he would not be party to India's vivisection. |
| 11/28/1962 | K. C. Dey, well-known famous blind singer of Bengal, died. |
| 7/20/1905 | First Partition of Bengal, which was proposed by Lord Curzon, was accepted by British Government's Minister of India. |
| 11/1/1945 | Narendra Dabholkar, blind faith eradicator (Andhashradhha Nirmulak), was born. |
| 10/4/1992 | D. M. Sutar, freedom fighter and senior journalist, died. |
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