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Historical Event on 9/24/1997

I. K. Gujral, Prime Minister, addresses UN General Assembly, stakes India's claim to UN Security Council seat.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/22/1991President withholds assent to the pension bill of Members of Parliament.
9/12/1998Bihar flood toll mounts to 320.
1/16/1948Pakistan charges India with systematic campaign to wipe out Muslims.
2/2/1978Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, the first receipent of ""Gyanpeeth Puraskar (Award)"", and many other awards, passed away.
1/27/1972V. S. Sarvate (Tatya Saheb), great revolutionary writer, passed away.
6/23/1761Balaji Bajirao (Nanasaheb), third peshwa, died at Pune, after losing in the Third Battle of Panipat on 12 June.
5/9/1997Hareesh Khandelwal, an accused in the fodder scam, commits suicide by jumping before a train at Dhanbad in Bihar.
12/15/1803East India Company captured Orrisa state.
10/31/2000The Income Tax Department 'indicts' five cricketers - Kapil Dev, Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Nikhil Chopra and Ajay Sharma - for tax evasion and concealment of income earned through ""dubious sources'
11/18/1727Maharaja Jai Singh-II of Amber laid the stone of Jaipur City. Vidyadhar Chakravarty of Bengal was the architect of the first planned city in India.