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Historical Event on 1/24/1921

T. N. Raina, former Army Chief and High Commissioner of Canada, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/28/1997Former Union Ministers Arjun Singh, N.D. Tiwari, R.K. Dhawan and Madhavrao Scindia discharged in the Jain hawala case by special judge V.B. Gupta.
1/9/1923Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur, passed away.
1/21/1922V. Rajagopal, cricket test umpire for 1 test in 1969-70, was born in Mumbai.
3/19/1995Vinaychandra Maudgal, founder of Gandharva Mahavidyalay of Delhi and music expert, passed away.
11/1/1937Keral University established.
3/27/1990A 10-member Progressive Democratic Front Ministry led by Churchill Alemao sworn in Goa.
9/6/1965Full scale warfare broke out all along the international border between West Pakistan and India. Pakistani troops advanced towards the Indian town of Akhnur in Kashmir and Pakistani paratroopers raided Punjab.
12/25/1771Shah Alam II sat on the Throne of Dehli. Marathas captured Delhi and induced Shah Alam to return to Delhi after an absence of 18 years from the captial.
10/27/1973The first Ladies Police Station started functioning at Calicut in Kerala.
11/14/1997N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.