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Historical Event on 10/24/1991

Ismat Chugtai, famous Urdu author, social worker and campaigner for justice for women, died at the age of 80 years.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/28/1976Second World Hindi Conference held in Mauritius.
7/31/1993Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
12/17/1645Noorjahan Begum passed away.
1/10/1967Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, laid the foundation stone of Women's University, Karnataka, founded to pay gratitude to Rani Chainema of Kitur.
11/19/1877Jatindranath Benarjee, revolutionary of Indian freedom movement, was born.
11/24/1952Brijesh Parsuram Patel, cricketer (Indian batsman 1974-77), was born in Baroda.
10/5/1932Madhavrao Laxmanrao Apte, cricketer (7 Tests for India, 1 century), was born in Bombay.
5/29/1965Indian Everest team sets a world record by climbing the Everest for the fourth time.
9/8/2000Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries.
9/27/1977Sanjiva Reddy was elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Government revokes the external emergency promulgated on December 3, 1971.