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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 |
| 1/15/1965 | Food Corporation of India inaugurated in Madras. |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
| 10/29/1971 | Cyclone and tidal waves struck Orissa state claiming 10,000 lives. |
| 9/27/1833 | Raja Rammohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician passed away at Stapleton Grove in England. |
| 4/5/1944 | 221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site. |
| 4/18/1612 | Marriage of Shahjahan and Mumtaj Mahal. |
| 8/5/1921 | Malhi Govind, modern Sindhi novelist, was born. |
| 12/4/1993 | Bahadur Prasad wins the second gold medal in 5000 m in Asian Track and Field meet in Manila. |
| 4/5/1961 | Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited was established in New Delhi by Indian Government for allopathic drugs. |
| 1/2/1757 | After the Battle of Plassey, Clive, Britisher, defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal and re-captured Calcutta, after it had been seized by the Nawab of Bengal who had used the ""Black Hole"" to imprison British captives. |
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