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Historical Event on 9/24/1873
Mahatma Jyotirao Phule established the 'Satyashodhak Samaj'.
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| 11/15/1911 | First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler. |
| 11/15/1992 | At least 170 people die in heavy rains and floods in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. |
| 11/9/1913 | Weekly 'Pratap' was published from Kanpur which was edited by Ganesh Shankar Vidyrarthi. |
| 11/18/1937 | 1,100 prisoners freed after appeal by Gandhi, his first political act in year. |
| 5/5/1930 | Gandhiji was arrested and imprisoned without trial. As a result there was ''hartal'' (strike)all over India. Over 100,000 people were jailed before the end of the year. |
| 2/20/1868 | Sisir Kumar, Basanta Kumar and Hemanta Kumar, three brothers, first published the 'Amrita Bazar Partika', a weekly issue in Bengali. |
| 7/18/1996 | Union Finance Ministry gives final clearance to the Enron power project in terms of issuance of counter-guarantee. |
| 8/13/1997 | The contentious women's reservation bill put on the back burner with PM Gujral saying govt. would not push through such a major social legislation until there was a consensus on it. |
| 4/29/1954 | India accepted Tibet as a part of China. |
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