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Historical Event on 1/24/1957

Kagaz Ke Phool, the first Indian black and white cinemascope film, was made.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/24/1944Manmohan Singh, famous economist and Finance Minister of India, was born.
2/12/1996Former Union Minister Kalpanath Rai sent to Tihai jail for allegedly harbouring members of mafia don Dawood Ibrahim's gang.
7/10/1999The Delhi police arrest Mohammad Javed alias Babu Bhai, an accused in the Jain Hawala case.
4/2/1987Indian Standards Institution becomes Bureau of Indian Standards.
7/1/1990General Sunith Francis Rodrigues takes over as Chief of the Army Staff.
1/24/1995Congress (I) suspends Arjun Singh from the party.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
2/3/1954More than 500 pilgrims died in an accident on the river bank at the ""Kumbha Mela"" in Allahabad.
12/23/1900Kalicharan Patnaik, famous Orria dramatist, poet and journalist, was born.
6/9/1752French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly, India.