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Historical Event on 5/24/1990

K. S. Hegde, former President of Parliament, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/12/1993RBI liberalises credit and monetary policy.
7/18/1908Fourteen thousand mill workers go on strike at Bombay.
2/15/1948Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, famous Hindi poet, political agitator, critic and freedom fighter, passed away near Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, in an automobile accident.
1/31/1948Cities swept by riots in wake of Gandhi murder.
12/27/1987Vijaypal Singh sets a record for TJ in 16.79s at Trivandrum .
4/8/1894Lifetime of Swami Chandrashekarendra(1894-1994), venerated Shankaracharya saint of Kanchi monastery in South India.
5/20/1878Bahameni Sultan Dawood Shah was assassinated.
10/18/1980The first Himalayan Car Rally of 5,377.9 km was started from Brabourne Stadium, Bombay with 74 starters.
6/18/1658Aurangzeb managed to capture the Agra Fort and later arrested his father Emperor Shahjahan.
3/3/1839Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, was born at Navsari near Surat, Gujarat. He started cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.