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Historical Event on 10/24/1995
Total solar eclipse seen over Rajasthan, UP, Bihar and West Bengal, while partial eclipse seen in the rest of the country.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/4/1974 | India in apartheid protest refuses to play South Africa in Davis Cup finals. |
| 12/20/1929 | The Indian State Air Service, an extension of Imperial Airways' routes, opens its inaugural service from Karachi to Delhi. |
| 4/25/1955 | Syed Mohammad Zamin Ali, great educationist, poet, editor, writer, professor and founder-member of the Hindustani Academy, passed away. |
| 9/29/2000 | Tata Ramachandra Prasad to be the next Cabinet Secretary. |
| 3/31/1999 | The PIO card, conferring privileges on persons of Indian origin settled abroad, is formally launched. |
| 5/8/1815 | Malaun of Nepal was captured by General David Ochterlony. |
| 2/9/1964 | Hanumant Singh scores 105 runs on his debut match during the India vs England cricket tournament at Delhi. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 1/1/1918 | Sir Edwin Lutyens was knighted in recognition of his quality of work at Delhi and his gratuitious services to the War Graves Commission. |
| 4/14/2000 | The AIADMK expels senior leaders Sedapatti R. Muthiah, S. Raghupathy and Karuppusamy Pandian for ''anti-party activities''. |
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