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Historical Event on 1/24/1957
Kagaz Ke Phool, the first Indian black and white cinemascope film, was made.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/10/1957 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad elected President of India for a second term. |
| 4/23/1938 | Viceroy Lord Linlithgow opens the hydro-electric scheme at Malakand. |
| 11/20/1997 | Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat arrives in New Delhi. India and Palestinian national authority take stock of stalled West Asia peace process. Two sides sign first umbrella Memorandum of Understanding. |
| 2/26/1874 | Sursingh Takhtsingh Gohil `Kalapi', famous Gujrati poet, was born. |
| 9/29/1907 | Labour MP James Keir Hardie accuses UK of running India 'like the Czar runs Russia' |
| 4/18/1918 | Amboo alias Lalita Pawar was born in Indore. She will be always remembered as the a leading film actress and character artist. Her first film was 'Ganimi Kawa' (1928). Some of the other films of silent era are Shri Balaji, Bhimsen, Champion of the Sward, Chatur Sunderi, Goodbye Marriage, Flaming Soul, Kailash. |
| 12/31/1900 | Krishna Narayan Ratanjankar, famous musician and writer of Tan Sangrah in three parts and Abhinav Geet Mangari, was born in Bombay. |
| 4/18/1961 | Pamella Bordes, photographer and model, was born in New Dehli, India. |
| 5/20/1994 | K. Brahmananda Reddy, 83, former Andhra Pradesh CM, passed away in Hyderabad. |
| 5/29/1906 | Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay. |
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