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Historical Event on 4/24/1965

Kosi Barrage inaugurated by King Mahendra of Nepal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/24/1926Aurobindo Ghose, former I.C.S. and revolutionary, attained full enlightenment I.e 'Purna Siddhi'.
6/22/1995India and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sign MOU enabling them to visit suspected militants and persons in detention centres only under humanitarian consideration.
12/29/1949Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer), was born in Madras.
12/29/1949Babur Shah, Mughal Emperior, defeated Afghan Nawab Nasrat Shah, king of Bengal, on the banks of the Gand and the Ghaghra river.
8/12/2000Neelam Jaswant Singh heaves the discus to a National mark (59.53m) in the Travancore National circuit athletics meet in Thiurvananthapuram.
12/15/1965Third cyclone of the year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges river.
2/5/1992Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar.
2/24/1924Mahatma Gandhi released from jail.
12/23/2000The Centre gives a green signal to West Bengal Government's proposal to rename Calcutta as ''Kolkata''.
10/15/1676King of England permitted the East India Company to mint the Rupee and Paisa coins at Bombay.