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Historical Event on 3/24/1998

200 people are killed in a tornado on both sides of the West Bengal-Orissa border. The toll includes 80 from West Bengal's Midnapore district.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/6/1942Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter and editor of ""Janma Bhoomi"", died due to non-medical facility and mal-nutrition in Jail. She has also written ""Karagaar Ke Anubhav"" in 1930. She was arrested for Satyagrah and forcefully closing of Foreign Goods.
6/7/1998India emerges World Bank's single largest borrower with cumulative loans of 44 billion dollars.
3/9/1897Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official).
6/16/1946C. Rajagopalchari became the Governor of West Bengal (1947) in Interim Government.
11/19/1877Jatindranath Benarjee, revolutionary of Indian freedom movement, was born.
11/16/1993Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender.
5/20/1987G. G. Jadhav `Pudhari', editor of daily newspaper, passed away.
8/6/1925Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
2/18/199247 die in Tamil Nadu's Kumbakonam Mahamakham stampede.
1/6/1979Rohini-200, first monsoon experimental rocket, launched from Thumba.