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Historical Event on 7/24/1783
Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, was born at Carcas.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/20/1997 | Second round of Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan starts in Islamabad. |
| 2/19/1855 | U. V. Swaminathan Iyyer, mahamahopadhyay Tamil author, was born. |
| 3/5/1989 | Bhagwat Jha Azad, Bihar CM, resigns. |
| 7/27/1927 | Krishna Baldev Vaid, famous story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 5/16/1960 | International Telex Service between India and U.K. started. |
| 2/15/1998 | Tennis duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati were ranked No. 2 when they won Dubai Open. |
| 3/5/1948 | C. Rajagopalachari appointed the first Indian Governor General to succeed Lord Mountbatten on 21 June. |
| 10/22/1983 | The Union government reduces the upper age limit for the Civil Services Examination from 28 years to 26 years. |
| 1/14/1641 | United East Indian Company conquers city of Malakka, 7,000 killed. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
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