Year 1311
General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India.
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24 April: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 24 April.
Observances & Special Days
National Panchayati Raj Day (India)
Year 1800
The world’s best library, the Library of Congress, opened in the United States.
Year 1929
First non-stop flight from England to India takes-off.
Year 1932
450 people seized by British for defying ban on Indian National Congress.
Year 1959
Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.
Year 1967
Vladimir Komarov became the first astronaut to die for not opening a parachute on time.
Year 1968
Mauritius joined the United Nations.
Year 1970
The Gambia became a republic.
Year 1980
Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief.
Year 1990
Hubble telescope launched into space.
Year 1993
Terrorists hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 427 from Delhi to Srinagar. All 141 passengers were released safely.
Year 1996
Indian Express launches Vizag (17th) edition.
Year 1996
SC holds that bank managers acting beyond their authority in allowing overdrafts and passing cheques would be amounted to committing misconduct.
Year 2013
A building collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed 1,129, and injured 2,500 people.
Born 1571
Sawai Raja Sur Singh Rathore, the king of the Marwar kingdom, India.
Born 1888
Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief minister of Assam and Governor of Madras, was born at Hajo.
Born 1918
Durgaprasad Dhar, former Vice President of Planning Commission, was born.
Born 1929
Rajkumar, an Indian film actor and playback singer in the Kannada cinema.
Born 1934
Jayakanthan, Indian journalist and author (d. 2015)
Born 1956
Sharad Bobde, the 47th and current Chief Justice of India.
Born 1956
Teejan Bai, an exponent of Pandavani, a traditional performing art form, from Chhattisgarh, India.
Born 1966
Margashayam Venkataramana, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 1989), was born in Secunderabad.
Born 1973
Sachin Tendulkar, a former Indian international cricketer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.
Born 1987
Varun Dhawan, an Indian actor.
Died 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.
Died 1926
Sri Sathya Sai Baba, an Indian guru, and philanthropist.
Died 1934
C. Sankaran Nair, the President of the Indian National Congress in 1897.
Died 1942
Dinanath Mangeshkar, an Indian singer, and actor.
Died 1944
Shivprasad Gupta, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, passed away.
Died 1972
Jamini Roy, an Indian painter.
Died 1974
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, an Indian Hindi poet, essayist, patriot, and academic.
Died 1999
Nanabhai Bhatt, Indian film director, and producer of Hindi and Gujarati cinema.
Died 2011
Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philanthropist (b. 1926)