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Historical Event on 4/24/1996
SC holds that bank managers acting beyond their authority in allowing overdrafts and passing cheques would be amounted to committing misconduct.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/8/1998 | Indian Airlines operates two international flights with all women crew. |
| 1/23/1972 | Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party; 100 die in New Delhi. |
| 12/7/1992 | Religious riots swept across India in the wake of the destruction of the ancient Babri Masjid mosque by rampaging Hindu fanatics in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya yesterday. More than 800 people had been killed and hundreds injured as Muslim and Hindu mobs stabbed, shooted and beat each other. The violence had thrown the government into chaos and had spilled into the neighboring states of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The army had been called out to restore order in Bombay, where street battles left 41 dead. The stock market had been closed down and Parliament forced to adjourn. Advani quit as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha. |
| 12/28/1981 | Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children. |
| 2/23/1998 | BJP leader Ranjit Yadav was shot dead in Sahibganj district. |
| 11/28/2000 | Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Communications Minister, launches his political outfit 'Janashakti' at a rally in New Delhi. |
| 4/15/1890 | Gaganvihari Lalubhai Mehta, famous Indian economist, politician and journalist, was born. |
| 4/15/1890 | Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born. |
| 1/28/1961 | Foundation-stone of the first factory of H.M.T. wrist watches laid in Bangalore. |
| 12/15/1908 | Swami Ranga Natahananda, was born at Trikkur, Kerala. |
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