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Historical Event on 1/24/1958

First international Film Festival started in Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/26/1841Bombay Gazette begins publishing on silk.
11/25/1987India all out for 75 vs West Indies at Delhi. Patterson took 5-24.
11/25/1987Saint Visoba Khechar, was the yogi-guru of the Varkari poet-saint Namdev of Maharashtra, took Samadhi.
11/5/1990Janata Dal splits. The breakaway group claims support of 58 M.P.'s to elect Mr. Chandrashekhar as leader. V.P. Singh's government loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha.
6/30/1934Chintamani Nagesh Ramachandra Rao, famous Scientist and Chemist, was born. His research work confines to ""Solid State Chemistry"". In 1982 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
11/5/1915Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born.
11/5/1928R. V. S. Perishastri, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born.
9/27/1833Raja Rammohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician passed away at Stapleton Grove in England.
1/14/1982First Antarctic Expedition on December 1981-Jan 1982; group of 21 Indian scientists team led by S. Z. Qasim reached Antarctica successfully.
8/29/1993Tamil refugees leave Madras for Sri Lanka apparently on their own free will.