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Historical Event on 1/24/1952

The first International Film Festival of India held in Bombay, this event had a great impact on Indian Cinema.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/1948Security Council takes up India's complaint charging Pakistan with aggression in Kashmir.
7/23/1997India decides to sign U.N. Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
2/1/1994ONGC becomes a Public Limited Company.
3/29/1990Adoor Bhasi, Malayalam film actor, passed away.
10/23/1990Following the arrest of its President L. K. Advani, who was leading a rathyathra to Ayodhya at Samasthipur in Bihar, BJP withdrew support to National Front Government.
9/20/1996Arunachal Chief Minister Apang resigns and forms new party Arunachal Congress.
5/17/1993Visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs an MOU with his Indian counterpart to end nearly 4 decades of inactivity in bilateral relation.
12/8/1930British Gen. Norman Simpson shot at desk by Indian nationalists.
11/16/1997Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan offers to surrender.
7/18/1946U.K. Parliament approves British Cabinet mission report on India but Churchill says that the mission went too far in offering India independence outside of the Commonwealth.