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Historical Event on 2/24/1961
Government of Madras province was renamed as Tamil Nadu.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/10/1901 | Narayan Pillai Gopala Pillai, great poet and educationist, was born in Quilon, Kerala. |
| 9/25/1914 | Devilal, former deputy Prime Minister of India and leader of farmers, was born. |
| 9/19/1960 | Sindhu River water-sharing settement was signed between India and Pakistan. |
| 2/9/1951 | The first census of free India of enumeration work was started. |
| 3/25/1983 | Modern oceanographic research ship of the world 'Sagar Kanya' landed first time in the sea. |
| 5/7/1861 | Guru Dev Rabindranath Thakur alias Tagore, novelist, painter, educationist and freedom fighter, was born in Calcutta. |
| 10/5/1949 | A. K. Pillai, great social reformer and politician, died. |
| 10/5/1949 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 10/5/1949 | The Sultan, losing his hold over the army and some members of his aristocracy, very wisely abdicated in favour of his brother Ahmad, who is famous in Deccan history as Ahmad Shah Wali. |
| 5/3/1998 | Kushabhau Thakre takes over as the new BJP President. |
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