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Historical Event on 3/24/1995

Devchand Somaiyya, famous Table Tennis player, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/21/1943Azad Hind Government was established in Singapore and Netaji Subhashchandra Bose was elected as its national leader.
8/2/1987Vishwanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess championship.
2/18/1992Sikh extremists murder 17 people in Punjab.
7/25/1992R. Venkataraman retired from the post of 8th President.
2/19/1974Bombay High Oil stock was found in the sea near Mumbai.
5/31/1968F.V. Arul became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 06/05/71).
10/6/1974Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great freedom fighter, barrister, leader, politician, nationalist and member of the Lok Sabha, passed away. He resigned as the defence minister soon after the Chinese aggression.
7/24/1991Industrial licensing scrapped.
2/26/1858Diwan Maniram and Piali Barua were hanged. (Grandson of Purandara Simha, the last Ahom king of Assam).
10/1/1953The first new state in India since 1949, Andhra Pradesh, is established on purely linguistic basis and formally inaugurated. This state was created by sub-dividing state of India, Madras Province and this movement was started by Shriramulu for which he had to sacrifice his life.