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Historical Event on 5/24/1956
Gautam Buddha's 2500th birth anniversary was celebrated.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/22/1939 | When Britain declared war against the Germans it appealed for help from all political parties. Congress put up some conditions which in other words were the immediate transfer of power. The Viceroy promised to give due consideration to the suggestions of each party and that the dominion status would be given after the war. Congress in order to pressurize the Govt. boycotted all ministries and started a civil disobedience movement and eventually resigned. Jinnah declared 22nd Dec 1939 as ""Day of Deliveranc |
| 12/27/1998 | Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen unveils his plans to set up a charity trust with the award money for development of education and health in India and Bangladesh. |
| 2/6/1827 | Shyam Shastri, musician and a great artist of India, passed away at the age of 65 years. |
| 1/22/1903 | Shankar Das Banerji, lawyer and politician, was born at Calcutta. |
| 8/30/2000 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announced a package for small units raising the ceiling on loans from Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs. For the handloom sector, a separate scheme costing Rs. 447 crores was also finalised. |
| 5/1/1879 | Swami Vivekanand established Ramkrishna Mission. |
| 9/16/1931 | Political prisoners Tarkeshwar Dutta and Santosh Mitra were shot by an officer at Hijli detention camp near Kharagpur. They were arrested for attending the Hijli meeting. |
| 12/28/1951 | Recognition to Libya by India accorded. |
| 2/27/1987 | UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar recieved the Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding. |
| 11/12/1896 | Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali, explorer, ecologist, teacher, writer and bird watcher, was born. |
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