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Historical Event on 2/24/1961
Government of Madras province was renamed as Tamil Nadu.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/16/1955 | Leopold C. M. S. Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), died at the age of 81. |
| 6/18/1918 | A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous poet of Malayalam language, critic and master of grammer, passed away. |
| 7/20/1993 | British parliament ratifies the Indo-British extradition treaty. |
| 11/28/1993 | JRD Tata, 89, passed away in Geneva. |
| 11/30/1896 | Gandhiji sails for South Africa with wife and children. |
| 2/11/1996 | Wills World Cup Cricket inaugurated at Calcutta. |
| 2/25/1999 | The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively. |
| 8/1/1988 | Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1991. |
| 8/4/1997 | Nilesh Kulkarni becomes the first Indian to take a wicket with his first ball in Test Cricket (Colombo). |
| 1/18/1982 | Six thousand labor activists arrested in two days and national strike called in New Delhi. |
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