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Historical Event on 4/24/1996

BSE index reaches 3869.87, a new 18-month high.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/15/1951Scindia's SS Jal Pushpa launched.
9/30/1687Aurangzeb acquired the famous Golconda fort near Hyderabad from the Qutub Shahi Sultan Tana Shah due to the treachery of his General Panni.
9/23/1803British-Indian forces defeated the Marathas in the Battle of Assaye.
8/20/1979Indian premier Charan Singh resigns.
5/11/1911Shrimati Lalitadevi, wife of second Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri, was born.
7/12/1999Rajendra Kumar (71), legendary actor who acted in over 150 Hindi films, died in Mumbai.
5/27/1968Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously.
5/11/1995In central Kashmir, militants burnt the Charar-e-Sherif shrine (the tomb of Sufi saint Sheikh Noorudin Noorani) built in 1460 by Zain-ul- Abidin.
5/11/1995Saint Namdev passed away.
2/19/1911Merle Oberon, film actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), was born in Calcutta, India.