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Historical Event on 2/24/1994
Sharp increase in freight rates in the 1994-95 Railway budget; Pre-budget Economic Survey puts GDP growth in 1993-94 at 3.8\%.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/20/1684 | Treaty between Marathas and Portuguese. |
| 9/14/1992 | The government allows foreign investors to enter the Indian capital market; incentives offered. |
| 9/21/1895 | Annapurnanand, great writer, was born. |
| 8/21/1997 | Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India. |
| 4/17/1996 | Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains. |
| 1/4/1914 | Indira Sant, famous Marathi poet, was born. |
| 4/4/1898 | Hiralal Sen and his brother Motilal Sen purchased a Bioscope Cinematographic Machine from London. The first show of imported films was arranged by them at Classic Theatre on April 4, after which they formed 'The Royal Bioscope Co.,' controlled by H. L. Sen & Bros., 85/2, Maszid Badi Street, Calcutta. The Bioscope Company started touring the provinces of Bengal, Orissa and Bihar. |
| 7/7/1910 | 'Bharat History Research Mandal' was established. |
| 7/7/1910 | The first ship of the Dutch East India Company returned from Far East. |
| 7/19/1925 | Dinesh Singh, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Kalakankar (U.P). |
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