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Historical Event on 12/24/1998

A.B.Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces increased cash awards for Asian Games medallists.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/29/1959India sends troops to Tibet border to block the Chinese.
1/15/1996Restoration of the original name of the city as ""Mumbai"" for Bombay Vide Maharashtra Act No, XXV of 1996.
1/26/1961Special stamps dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi in the Champion of Liberty series issued by the United States postal department.
1/14/1969Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu.
12/4/1989Hardeo Joshi replaces Shiv Charan Mathur as CM of Rajasthan.
1/25/1948French India Peoples' Convention, Pondicherry, passed a resolution for complete merger of the French India with the Dominion of India. - G. V. Mavlankar was elected the first Speaker of the Indian Parliament.
6/1/1944Liladhar Jagudi, well known Hindi poet, passed away.
8/30/1903Bhagwati Charan Varma was born.
12/9/1825Tula Ram Rao, one of the revolutionary heroes of the 1857 and Sepoy Mutiny, was born.
2/23/1998The Samajwadi Party candidate for the Motihari Lok Sabha seat, Mr. Devendra Nath Dubey, is shot dead at Baniarpur in Patna.