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Historical Event on 1/24/1996
H.K.L. Bhagat, senior Congress politician and former minister, arrested in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/25/1924 | Atal Krishna Behari Bajpayee, Prime Minister of India and a veteran journalist, was born at Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. |
| 7/21/1962 | Passenger Train and Freight Train collided near Dumraon killing 69 persons. |
| 9/3/1905 | Kamlapati Tripathi, leader of Indian National Congess, was born. |
| 5/14/1923 | Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar, one of the founder members of Indian Congress and social reformer, passed away. |
| 7/29/1993 | Two bills seeking to delink religion from politics and to empower the EC to debar parties with religious names introduced in Lok Sabha. |
| 9/21/1994 | Ramkrishna Bajaj, freedom fighter and veteran industrialist, passed away. |
| 12/28/1688 | Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites). |
| 8/16/1996 | CBI raids house of former minister Sukh Ram and finds cash and jewellery to the tune of Rs. 3 crore. |
| 7/31/1658 | Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor. |
| 6/5/1992 | Hindi weelky of Indian Express Group 'Screen' published. |
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