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Historical Event on 1/24/1921

T. N. Raina, former Army Chief and High Commissioner of Canada, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/22/1956Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing.
9/21/1997Mahesh Bhupathi wins a cliff-hanger as India clinches Davis Cup World Group play-off tie against Chile 3-2 in Delhi.
8/2/1987Geet Sethi retains the World Amateur Billiards title.
5/17/1998US President Bill Clinton wants India and Pakistan to sign CTBT.
2/20/1868Sisir Kumar, Basanta Kumar and Hemanta Kumar, three brothers, first published the 'Amrita Bazar Partika', a weekly issue in Bengali.
9/9/2000Venus Williams wins the women's singles in the U.S. Open championship.
1/10/199627th International Film Festival of India begins in New Delhi.
9/27/1989The second test launching of India's surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi', from Sri Harikota was successful.
12/21/1999Kushabhau Thakre, BJP president, said that Ayodhya issue was a 'programme' and not an ideology of the party.
1/11/1991Five JD ministers at the Centre disqualified by Speaker Rabi Ray on the basis of anti-defection law.Five disqualified ministers who tendered their resignation were asked to continue in office by the PM.