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Historical Event on 7/24/1993
Vajpayee elected leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1897 | Girja Dayal Girish, great poet and writer, was born at Saraiyan Mahipat Singh, U.P. |
| 8/30/1928 | Jawaharlal Nehru lays his plans for a free India and becomes president of Congress Party in 1929. |
| 8/20/1944 | Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born in Bombay. |
| 10/13/1999 | Janata Dal (United) snap ties with the BJP in Karnataka |
| 11/22/1773 | Robert Clive, English occupier (India), passed away at the age of 48. |
| 5/14/1999 | Gurucharan Singh Tohra is expelled from Shiromani Akali Dal. |
| 11/11/1913 | Gandhi sentenced to nine months' imprisonment at South Africa. |
| 12/22/1995 | A Russian-made AN-26 plane forced to land in Bombay following an Intelligence Bureau tip off that it could be the suspected aircraft which dropped arms at Purulia. |
| 4/5/1987 | The centenary of Bombay Fire Brigade was celebrated. (CIVIC). |
| 2/17/1931 | Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"". |
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