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Historical Event on 5/24/1993
India and Uzbekistan sign five pacts.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/28/2000 | Marion Jones wins the 200m gold medal at Sydney. |
| 11/21/1947 | First Stamp of Independent India was released |
| 2/11/1933 | First edition of weekly ""Harijan"" edited by Mahatma Gandhi was published from Pune in English and Hindi. |
| 12/3/1971 | Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief. |
| 12/10/1907 | Rudyard Kipling, author of `The Jungle Book' and `Kim', received the Nobel prize for literature. |
| 1/14/1896 | Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance Minister of India, was born. |
| 5/4/1923 | Mrinal Sen, famous film director, was born. |
| 10/12/1961 | Sureshchandra Banerjee, great politician, died. |
| 8/14/1998 | Classical vocalist Shamshad Begum, who enthralled radio listeners in the 30s and 40s, died in Mumbai. |
| 1/2/1991 | Thiruvananthapuram airport declared India's fifth International Airport. |
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