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Historical Event on 2/24/1995

25 jawans die in an explosion in Brahmaputra Mail near Nilalong station about 200 km from Guwahati.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/5/1983Keshavrao Kothavle 'Lalit', editor of monthly magzine, passed away.
11/18/1999Three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, including its Chief Commander, are killed in a fierce encounter with Special Operations Group (SOG) in Jammu and Kashmir.
10/1/1932Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years.
5/4/1923Mrinal Sen, famous film director, was born.
1/21/1994India and Myanmar decide to open border trade.
3/16/1993Central government introduces pension scheme for 170 million EPF subscribers.
3/5/1919M.L. Kapoor, great industrialist, was born at Lahore.
5/2/1996Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.
12/15/1943The Vengeance suffered numerous defects and teething troubles, necessitating temporary withdrawal from the two IAF squadrons, but the problems were eventually mitigated if not eradicated, and No. 8 Sqn flew its first operational Vengeance sorties against Japanese targets from Double Moorings, Chittagong.
9/30/1999A B Vajpayee, Prime Minister, calls upon the people at an election campaign in Lucknow to give him a five-year term.