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Historical Event on 10/24/1789
Jean C Baud, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1834-6), was born
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/9/1977 | Keshavrao Bhole, great music director, passed away. |
| 1/31/1997 | Government raises quantity of gold that can be brought into the country by non-residents to 10 kg. (from the existing 5). |
| 11/9/1942 | Jami, last evergreen poet of Parsi language, died. |
| 4/3/1984 | Soyuz T-11 carried three cosmonauts along with the first Indian Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma to Salyut 7. |
| 9/22/1789 | Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department. |
| 3/3/1934 | Amarsingh Pandurang Rane, educationist, was born at Banage, Kolhapur. |
| 4/22/1991 | IMF and the World Bank decide to grant $1 billion loan to India. |
| 4/2/1953 | Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist and writer, passed away. |
| 10/1/1990 | Justice Ranganath Mishra appointed Chief Justice of Supreme Court. |
| 1/10/1908 | Gandhiji adopts word, ""Satyagraha"" in place of ""Passive Resistance"". Sentenced to two months' imprisonment for failure to leave Transvaal. |
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