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Historical Event on 10/24/1994

The Supreme Court refused to answer Presidential reference on Ayodhya and acquisition of disputed land was upheld.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/15/1993India regains ""Rubber"" after 6 years by beating England by an innings and 70 runs at Madras.
8/22/1987Aircraft carrier ship of Indian Navy 'Virat' joined in fleet.
4/9/1986First University in India devoted to hygiene established at Vijaywada.
6/3/1977K. Brahmananda Reddi elected President of the Indian National Congress.
6/3/1977Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe.
9/10/1920Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.
11/20/1969Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs Australia in Kanpur.
8/27/1781Haider Ali and the Britishers fought the battle of Pallilore.
3/28/1943S. Satyamurti, social reformer, politician and member of legislative council at Madras, died. He was born in Tirumayyam village in August 19, 1887.
3/30/1989Waman Ganpat Behre `Sobat', editor of weekly, passed away.