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Historical Event on 12/24/1924

Mohammed Rafi, famous playback singer, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/22/1903Shankar Das Banerji, lawyer and politician, was born at Calcutta.
8/15/1947Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India.
11/2/1841Akbar Khan revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan.
11/7/2000The BJP firebrand Uma Bharti makes a triumphant return to the Union Ministry as Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs and Arun Jaitley gets elevated as Cabinet Minister in a mini expansion. Maj.Gen. (Retd) B. C. Khanduri takes oath as Minister of State for Transport and Highways.
9/10/1915Jatindranath Mukhrjee, great revolutionary, died after being wounded in a pitched battle between the revolutionaries and the police, aided by an army unit, in Balasore.
8/28/1972General Insurance Business was nationalised.
7/23/1904The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains.
7/16/1993Russia cancels cryogenic rocket deal with India.
6/11/1997Jaspal Rana and J. Abhijit in the men's section and Nisha Millet in the women's section adjudged best sports persons of the National Games.
9/11/1893Swami Vivekananda represented Hinduism at Chicago's Parliament of the World's Religions, the first ever inter-faith gathering, dramatically enlightening Western opinion to the depth of Hindu philosophy and culture. He spoke for the first time in Chicago.