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People born on October 24
1725 - Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last emperor of the Mughal Empire.
1911 - Ashok Mehta - Politician, MP.
1914 - Lakshmi Sehgal, freedom fighter and social worker.
1921 - R. Of. Laxman, well known cartoonist.
1940 - Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan - India's famous space scientist.
1967 – Ian Bishop, former West Indies fast bowler and current commentator, was born.
Died on 24 October
1954 – Rafi Ahmed Qidwai, freedom fighter and politician.
1991 - Ismat Chughtai - Urdu litterateur.
2000 - Sitaram Kesari - politician.
2006 - Dharampal - A great Gandhian, historian and philosopher of India.
2013 - Manna Dey - Government of India honored him with Padma Bhushan in the field of art in 2005.
2015 - Shamshad Hussain, an Indian artist.
2017 - Girija Devi - was a famous Thumri singer.
2020 - Jashomati Nandan Das, president of ISKCON temple in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, passed away last evening. He was 72 years old and was infected with Corona.
Important Occasions and Celebrations of 24 October
- Shri Sambhavnath Ji Gyan Kalyanak (Jain, Kartik Krishna Chaturthi).
- World Development Information Day.
- World Polio Day.
- United Nations Foundation Day.
- Indo Tibetan Border Police Raising Day.
- International Day of Climate Action.
- International Gibbon Day.
- International Freshwater Dolphin Day.
- Disarmament Week (24 to 30 October every year).
Important Events of 24 October
1577 – The fourth Sikh Guru Ramdas founded the city of Amritsar, the city was named after the pond Amrit Sarovar.
1579 - Jesuit priest SJ Thomas was the first Englishman to visit India, he reached Goa by Portuguese ferry.
1605 - Mughal emperor Jahangir took the throne in Agra.
1648 – The Westfali Agreement is signed between Pros-Austria, Sweden and France. This put an end to the bloody battles between Protestant and Catholic Christians.
1795 - Poland is divided between Austria, Prussia and Russia.
1851 – First telegraph line opened between Calcutta and Diamond Harbour.
1861 – Justice Stephen Jay Field of California sends the first transcontinental telegraph message to US President Lincoln.
1915 - In the American city of New York, 25,000 women demonstrated for the right to vote.
1945 – A month after the end of World War II, the United Nations Organization (UNO) is established to establish world peace.
1946 - For the first time the Earth was photographed from space by a rocket.
1948 - Bernard Baruch uses the term 'Cold War' for the first time in a speech before the Senate War Inquiry Committee.
1949 – The foundation stone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid in New York.
1962 - The Indo-Tibetan Border Police is an Indian paramilitary force, established to protect the Indo-Tibetan border from the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
1975 - An ordinance was brought to end the bonded labor system and it came into effect from the next day.
1982 - Sudha Madhavan becomes the first female athlete to run in a marathon.
1984 - First metro train (underground train) started in Kolkata between Esplanade and Bhawanipur.
2001 – NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft successfully enters orbit around Mars.
2003 – The last commercial supersonic Concorde aircraft lands in London.
2004 - Brazil conducts the first successful rocket test in space.
2005 - New Zealand-India agrees to a new air services agreement.
2019 - India and Pakistan signed the much-awaited Kartarpur Corridor Agreement.
2020 - Government of India approves establishment of 47 additional posts of Indo-Tibetan Border Police to enhance border surveillance.
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