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Historical Event on 4/24/1974
Ramdhari Singh alias 'Dinkar', veteran famous Hindi writer and poet, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/24/1948 | Ashok Gandotra, cricketer (Two Tests for India 1969), was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| 9/18/1992 | M. Hidayatullah, former Vice President and Chief Justice, died. He was 87. |
| 5/17/1927 | A.N. Radhakrishnan, great educationist, was born. |
| 3/1/1917 | Kartar Singh Duggal, famous author, was born at Dhamyal, Pakistan. |
| 7/20/1982 | Mira Behn (90), disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, passed away. |
| 10/1/1928 | Shivaji Ganeshan, famous actor, was born. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 2/28/1936 | Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland. |
| 12/20/1904 | Virendranarayan Chakravorthy, former Indian Ambassador in England and Governor of Haryana, was born. |
| 1/28/1976 | Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through New Zealand at Eden Park. |
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