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Historical Event on 5/24/1999
Noted wrestling coach Dronacharya awardee Guru Hanuman passed away in a road accident near Meerut.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/26/1949 | Social Democratic Party led by K. T. Shah formed. |
| 8/15/1985 | Accord reached on the Assam foreign nationals issue, agitation called off. |
| 9/12/1965 | Army fights back heavy Indian tank attacks at Pakistan. |
| 6/4/1972 | First Environment Day. |
| 11/1/1949 | Thomason Collage at Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh, was raised to the status of an Engineering University - the first of its kind in India. |
| 10/29/2000 | Jitendra Prasada, senior Congress leader, files nomination papers for the party presidential polls setting the stage for a contest against the incumbent, Ms. Sonia Gandhi. |
| 10/29/2000 | Kritiwas, writer of Ramayana in Bengali language, was born. |
| 6/25/1900 | Louis Mountbatten, last British Voiceroy and first Governor General of independent India, was born at England. |
| 5/8/1954 | Indian Government decided to integrate Chandranagar in West Bengal which was under the rule of the French. |
| 2/1/1988 | The first Congress of the Indian Dental Association begins. (28-1-88). |
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