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Historical Event on 2/24/1924

Mahatma Gandhi released from jail.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/17/1932V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born.
11/19/19829th Asian Games started in Delhi.
8/14/1968Week-long flood death toll reaches 1,000.
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"".
10/21/1999Madhavrao Scindia becomes the Deputy Leader of Congress (I) in the Lok Sabha.
5/7/1994Sunit Khatau, famous industrialist and textile magnet in Mumbai and owner of Khatau Group, was murdered. He was 55.
6/23/1987D. Chakraborty was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 02-07-1991.
6/2/1965The second of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India).
2/16/1933Surya Sen Masterda, revolutionary freedom fighter, who attacked the Armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army and was underground on Jalalabad Hills, was arrested.
11/29/1999Delhi HC dismisses the CBI plea against Jain brothers in Hawala case.