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Historical Event on 9/24/1994

At least 100 people die after an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the western city of Surat.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/24/1999Indian Airlines Kathmandu-Delhi Airbus 300 with 186 people on board hijacked shortly after take-off.
5/6/199712 persons killed and eight seriously injured in two blasts in east Delhi.
9/11/2000A Delhi High Court exonerates senior Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in Delhi (in Mansarovar Park in East Delhi on November 1, 1984).
11/14/1919Anantrao Bhalerao, freedom fighter, journalist and editor of daily news paper ""Marathawada"", was born.
10/16/1999A woman is elected as the Speaker of the Sikkim Assembly.
1/16/1999Ritwick Bhattacharya (Delhi) and Mekhala Subedar (Maharashtra) won the men's and women's titles in the National squash championship in Calcutta.
1/3/1931Yashwant Dinkar Phadke, great critic of literature, was born.
3/13/1878The Vernacular Press Act was passed which subsequently made the Amrita Bazar Patrika of Calcutta an English newspaper.
8/16/1997Krishan Kant, Andhra Pradesh's Governor, elected as the Vice President of India.
3/11/1881Ashley Eden unveiled in Calcutta Town Hall the first statue of Indians Ram Nath Tagore and Dwarkanath Tagore.