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Historical Event on 3/24/1998

200 people are killed in a tornado on both sides of the West Bengal-Orissa border. The toll includes 80 from West Bengal's Midnapore district.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/25/1954Manvendranath Roy, great patriot, died.
6/22/1996Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test debut.
6/6/1962General Election ( 3rd) of India ends.
9/9/1991Gold ornaments pledged by the Goans to the Portugese bank returned to owners.
4/11/1993Laxmanrao Madhav Bhide, senior freedom fighter and history expert, passed away.
2/25/1968Judge Mohammad Hidayatullah became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 16/12/1970.
10/27/1999P.M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) re-elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
10/27/1999Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan was born.
9/14/1923Ram Jethmalani, famous law expert and politician, was born.
4/25/1998The Government announces a new salary structure for university and college teachers, consequent to the implementation of the Fifth Pay Commission recommendations.