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Historical Event on 2/24/1961
Government of Madras province was renamed as Tamil Nadu.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1944 | Sir Edwin Lutyens, the Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, died. |
| 1/1/1944 | Battle of Krisna was fought between two villages Rakshasi and Tangadi. |
| 12/11/1908 | New law suspends trial by jury and increases penalties for 'sedition.' |
| 12/16/1867 | Amy Carmichael, Scotch Irish missionary, was born. She went to India in 1895 under the Zenana Missionary Society, remaining there without furlough until her death 56 years later. An invalid during her last 20 years, she worked to rescue children from the Hindus. |
| 8/25/1888 | Allama Mashriqi, Muslim leader, was born. |
| 2/13/1713 | Sultan Jahandar Shah was strangled to death. Farrukhsiyar captured the throne of Delhi from Jahandar Shah with the assistance of two Sayyid brothers. |
| 3/14/1883 | Karl Marx, great journalist, chief editor, writer and social worker, died in London. |
| 1/26/1882 | Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta. |
| 4/12/1801 | William Carey fort was appointed the Professor of Bengali Language in fort at William College, Calcutta. |
| 4/1/1947 | Gandhiji addresses Asian Relations Conference in Delhi. |
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