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Historical Event on 9/24/1992

India's Leander Paes defeats Britain's Jeremy Bates in the Davis Cup tie in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/18/1905Indian Home Rule Society was founded at London by Shyamji Krishna Varma.
5/13/1998India carries out two more nuclear tests at Pokharan in Rajasthan.
10/28/1946Gandhiji leaves for Calcutta. Riots break out in Bihar.
8/22/2000Parliament okays two Constitutional Amendment Bills restoring relaxations in marks for promotion in government jobs to SC/STs and exempting Arunachal from reservation for SCs.
10/26/1943Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.
9/3/1999India launches a new phase of military modernisation after the Kargil conflict.
11/29/1945Ugoslaviya in Rajshahi was ended.
7/26/1874Rajarshi Shahu Chhatrapati, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born.
7/12/1970Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives.
11/16/1877Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer and innovator, died. He was the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He introduced lighting by gas and was the first to build ""INDUS"", a steam-ship in India in 1833. He also introduced sewing machine, photography and electro-plat