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Historical Event on 4/24/1995

K. Karunakaran elected to Rajya Sabha.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/17/1938Dilip Purushottam Chitre, famous Marathi poet, story writer, critic and Sahitya Academy awardee, was born.
9/7/1996First phase of J & K Assembly elections.
1/23/1978The motto ""Shastra se Shakti"" (Strength though arms) in Hindi written in Devengiri script was approved by the President of India as the motto of the Army Ordnance Corps.The original corps motto of the Ordnance corps was ""Usa Tela Tananti"" found in the arms of the board of Ordnance. This was translated to mean ""To the thunder his arms"". The corps song titled ""Ayudh Corps Mahan"" was introduced for the first time in 4th re-union of the Army Ordnance Corps. The song is to be played or sung ""within unit lines only"", during purely Regimental functions.
8/8/1984P.T. Usha at Los Angeles sets record for 400m H. (Women) in 55.42.
11/13/1909Gandhiji left England for South Africa and wrote ''Hind Swaraj'' on board S.S. Kildonan Castle.
2/19/1994IRBM Agni Missile test fired successfully for the third time.
12/26/1989India debars Bofors from future contracts until they come out clean.
10/27/1997UP ministry expanded by inducting 70 new members thus taking the total number of a record 93 members.
7/4/1999S. Vijayalakshmi won the National women's `A' chess championship with a round to spare in Kozhikode.
12/31/1802Peshwa Baji Rao-II, after being defeated by Yashwant Rao Holkar, signed the treaty of Subsidiary Allowance and accepted security of British Government.