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Historical Event on 3/24/1990

Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was withdrawn in toto from the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/22/2000India's first third generation satellite 'Insat-3B' put in orbit by Europe's latest Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana.
7/1/1975Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India, declared a 20-point economic programme.
3/3/1919Hari Narayan Apte, famous Marathi novelist, passed away.
10/18/2000Supreme Court gives the nod for construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river.
12/19/1919Sunil Kumar Banerjee, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1963-64, was born at Bengal.
6/22/1975National Emergency was declared and censorship introduced.
9/19/1937Vishnu Narayan Matkhande passed away.
9/19/1937Mughal army defeated Rana Pratapsingh in the battle of Haldighat.
9/16/1990Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
9/17/1956Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC ) established.