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Historical Event on 10/24/1997
Kerala bans ragging in educational institutions by an ordinance.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/6/1991 | Chandrasekhar resigns as PM. |
| 4/30/1992 | Import duty on gold halved; minor concessions in direct taxes. |
| 4/3/1914 | Sam Hormuj Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, India's first Field Marshal, was born. He was better known as ""Sam Manekshaw"". |
| 7/13/1916 | Ramkrishna Bakre (Tatya), veteran journalist and music critic, was born. |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
| 5/2/1998 | The Indian Army at Bandipura market captured 10.5 Kg Charas. |
| 11/25/1962 | Dasganu (Ganesh Dattatreya Sahastrabuddhe), modern Marathi saint and poet, passed away. |
| 6/10/1955 | Prakash Padukone, internationally famous Badminton player, was born. |
| 5/31/1994 | Pandit Samtaprasad, famous Tabla player, passed away. |
| 12/12/2000 | A special court for CBI cases rejects Hinduja brothers' plea and summons them to appear on January 19, 2001. |
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