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Historical Event on 5/24/1956

Gautam Buddha's 2500th birth anniversary was celebrated.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/6/1996SC asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to I.T. department.
9/29/19881988 Nobel Peace Prize for U.N. Peace-Keeping Forces.
9/5/199530 member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Council sworn-in that was conceded by the Government of India in 1993.
9/12/1994UN Secretary General Ghali visits New Delhi.
10/16/1968Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
2/12/1960Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers.
2/12/1960Chaitanya Maha Prabhu, vaishnav Sant, passed away. His mortal remains at Puri.(9/7or 29/6).
10/14/1910Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama's agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India.
12/7/1825First Steam Engine Ship ""Enterprise"" reached Calcutta.
1/4/1931Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar, great orator, eminent journalist, fighter and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia, died at London during the first Round Table Conference. He was closely associated to Mahatma Gandhi and took active part in Civil Disobedience Movement.