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Historical Event on 2/24/1994
Sharp increase in freight rates in the 1994-95 Railway budget; Pre-budget Economic Survey puts GDP growth in 1993-94 at 3.8\%.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/2/1993 | Kurla-Kochi Express rams into goods train near Jolarpet in which 22 were killed and 100 injured. |
| 6/2/1993 | Bahadur Tair, under their leader Mongol of Hulagu Khan, captured Lahore. |
| 2/16/1986 | The Silver Jubilee of I.N.S.- Vikrant, India's only aircraft carrier, fails. |
| 2/16/1986 | Rana Sangram Singh, King of Mewad, attacked on Mughal Emperor Babur near Kanwa at Agra. |
| 11/10/1960 | First Nagpur session of Maharashtra State. |
| 2/19/1996 | Biennial elections to fill 39 Rajya Sabha seats in nine states. |
| 5/25/1961 | Woorkeri Venkar Raman, left-hand batsman and slow-spin bowler, was born in Madras. |
| 8/2/1942 | Gandhi says that the Japanese might be welcomed in India should they invade due to current Indian discontent. |
| 5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
| 5/5/1989 | Naval Tata, famous industrialist, passed away. |
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