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Historical Event on 1/24/1921

T. N. Raina, former Army Chief and High Commissioner of Canada, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/29/1869Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkar Bappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, was born at Bhavnagar, Saurashtra.
1/5/1995PM gives valedictory address at the 8th World Tamil Conference in Madurai.
3/14/1883Karl Marx, great journalist, chief editor, writer and social worker, died in London.
10/15/1996H.D. Deve Gowda, Prime Minister, launched the concluding ceremony of the 85th year of ICMR at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. He also gave away the ICMR Prizes and Awards (1994-95) to outstanding bio-medical scientists of India.
4/4/1947San Francisco's Henry Grady chosen the first U.S. ambassador to India.
3/7/1952Parmahansa Yogananda, great saint, social reformer and writer, died at Los Angles.
9/30/1996PVN Rao, who was to appear in court in the Pathak cheating case, gets a reprieve
2/3/1954More than 500 pilgrims died in an accident on the river bank at the ""Kumbha Mela"" in Allahabad.
2/3/1954Mughals capture Ahmednagar.
12/4/1999A batch of 1,690 Indian soldiers leave for Sierra Leone to join the U.N. Mission to implement the peace accord.