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Historical Event on 2/24/1995
Rishang Keishing (Cong-I) sworn in as the 15th CM of Manipur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/25/1989 | Congress-I ministry headed by S. C. Jamir assumes office in Nagaland. |
| 4/6/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi picked up a lump of natural salt for breaking the 'Salt Law'. He was arrested at Dandi. This movement gathered strength and within a month about one lakh people were sent to jail. This violation of Salt Law was the second great step in India's Freedom Movement. |
| 4/7/1998 | Soli Sorabjee is appointed Attorney-General of India. |
| 8/27/1998 | India's cricket sensation Sachin Tendulkar has an audience with the legendary Sir Don Bradman at the latter's 90th birthday celebrations in Adelaide. |
| 12/1/1964 | Jawaharlal Nehru Agriculture University established. |
| 5/8/1930 | Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest. |
| 4/4/1905 | More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping. |
| 12/10/1878 | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great social reformer, ardent patriot, incisive thinker and eminent literateur was born at Hosur in Tamil Nadu. He was the first Indian Governor General of independent India and popularly known as 'Rajaji'. |
| 12/8/1922 | Hari Prasad Sharma, cricket Test umpire for 3 tests from 1974-77, was born at Delhi. |
| 8/25/1992 | Veerappa Moily, Karnataka minister, stripped of Education portfolio. |
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