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Historical Event on 3/24/1947

Lord Louis Mountbatten came to India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/18/1918A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous poet of Malayalam language, critic and master of grammer, passed away.
9/5/1988The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill.
11/23/1908Durga Das, famous social reformer and journalist, was born.
9/20/1989IPKF suspends its operations against LTTE in Sri Lanka. LTTE, in turn, ceases all operations against the Indian armed forces.
12/30/1865Rudyard Kipling, famous English litterateur and author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), was born in Bombay.
6/25/1994Bombay's former underworld don Haji Masthan Mirza passed away.
4/4/1997World Bank Atlas for 1997 put India as world's fifth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity estimated around $1318 trillion.
9/7/1995Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh CM, wins the vote of confidence. He received 227 votes. 31 were neutral.
11/30/1999Prof. M. N. Sromovas, (83), well-known Sociologist in Bangalore, died.
2/25/1840Vinayak Konddev Oak, Marathi litteratewur, was born.