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Historical Event on 2/24/1957

General Election ( 2nd) of India begins.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/15/1997Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University.
5/25/1996Kathapurushan' wins best film national award.
4/1/1969India's first Atomic Energy Reactor started at Tarapore.
7/30/1883Badridas Goenka, famous industrialist, was born.
3/27/2000Mohan Bagan lifts title in the National Football league in Calcutta.
3/3/1999Four members of the forward Bhumihar community and alleged members of the Ranbir Sena are gunned down by an armed squad of the People's War Group in Bhimpura village of Jehanbad district in Bihar.
6/4/1993The Babri tribunal strikes down ban on RSS and Bajrang Dal and upholds outlawing of VHP.
11/29/1947The Nizam of Hyderabad said that he would not consider acceding to either dominion, but would agree to a 'standstill arrangement' with India. The agreement is accepted by the Indian government.
4/17/1923Lindsay Anderson, director (Thursday's Children), was born in Bangalore, India.
7/20/1969Varahagiri Venkatagiri retired from the post of President.