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Historical Event on 4/24/1996
Indian Express launches Vizag (17th) edition.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/30/1999 | Paes-Bhupathi stumbled in the doubles final losing to Patrick Rafter-Jonas Bjorkman in the Australian Open Tennis tournament. |
| 8/29/1956 | India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid. |
| 9/23/1952 | Anshuman Dattajirao Gaekwad, batsman in 40 Tests (1974-85), was born in Bombay. |
| 2/17/1907 | Henry Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society-Madras), passed away. |
| 5/10/1981 | The first day and night cricket match of India was played at the flood-lit ground of the Wilson College Gymkhana (Bombay). |
| 10/1/1854 | Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26. |
| 6/29/1966 | Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, famous mathematics expert, died. |
| 3/13/1978 | Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (3 wkts in 2 Tests for India), passed away. |
| 12/10/1952 | World's first official Family Planning programme launched in India. |
| 7/20/1905 | First Partition of Bengal, which was proposed by Lord Curzon, was accepted by British Government's Minister of India. |
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