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Historical Event on 4/24/1966
Margashayam Venkataramana, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 1989), was born in Secunderabad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/6/1930 | Balmurlikrishna, famous singer, was born. |
| 1/3/1831 | Savitribai Phule, famous social worker, was born at Naigaon in Satara district, Maharashtra. |
| 7/31/1940 | Udham Singh, fiery revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by the British Government in the Pantone Villa Jail, London. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 8/10/1982 | Memorial of 201 martyrs from Maharashtra inaugurated. |
| 9/10/2000 | Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship. |
| 1/22/1973 | Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationalist, passed away. |
| 6/24/1897 | Padmashree Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, famous music director of Gwalior Gharana, was born at Gujrat. |
| 4/26/1858 | Kunwar Singh, revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, passed away. He fought his last battle near Jagdishpur, Bihar on April 23, 1858 and defeated the Britishers but was deeply wounded. He also organised the national rebels. |
| 3/24/1995 | Devchand Somaiyya, famous Table Tennis player, passed away. |
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