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Historical Event on 5/24/1903
Hemchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali poet, passed away.
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| 7/12/1949 | Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die. |
| 8/2/1922 | Krishnapal Singh, politician and lawyer, was born at Birahuli in Madhya Pradesh. |
| 9/4/1983 | INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully. |
| 8/5/1999 | The Global Peace March demands demilitarisation of the entire planet. |
| 12/10/1918 | Rowlatt Act introduced by Lord Chelmsford. |
| 12/6/1992 | 300,000 Hindus destroy the mosque of Babri at Ayodhya, India. 4 die and BJP government in UP, led by Kalyan Singh, was dismissed and President's rule promulgated. Then countrywide riots followed. Pakistan and Bangladesh condemned demolition. |
| 6/23/1975 | Prannath Thapar, former Chief of Army, died. |
| 11/7/1858 | Bipinchandra Ramchandra Pal, powerful revolutionary and journalist, was born in a place called Silhat (now in Bangladesh). He was amoung the trio which was known as ""Lal - Bal - Pal"" during the freedom struggle. He started as newspaper called ""Swaraj"" for the Indians in England. He also edited several other newspapers like ""Tribune"", ""New India"", ""Vande Mataram"", ""Swaraj"", ""Hindu Review"", ""Democra |
| 4/9/1965 | After Indo-Pak conflict of 1965, the Raksha Medal, Samar Seva Star and some others were introduced. |
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