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Historical Event on 1/24/1924

Karpoori Thakur ""Jan Nayak"", freedom fighter, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, was born in village Samastipur, District Bihar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/4/1933Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to one year imprisonment.
8/15/1969Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) formed under Department of Atomic Energy.
8/1/1882Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, was born at Allahabad (U.P.).
2/2/1977Jagjivan Ram, Cabinet member of 30 years, resigns to protest emergency rule causing minor split in Congress party.
6/25/1997USA & India sign a new bilateral treaty for the extradition of fugitive offenders.
7/22/1925Govind Talwalkar, famous journalist and editor, was born.
4/5/1990Lok Sabha passes the Punjab Bill.
2/22/1993Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs England at Bombay in 411 balls and smashes 23 fours.
8/6/1925Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
6/11/1983Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter, social reformer, pioneer of Indian business, industry, and nationalist, died at London at the age of 89.