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Historical Event on 3/24/2000
Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/27/1881 | Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, great lawyer, philosopher and eminent historian, was born at Mirzapur, UP. |
| 7/28/1939 | Tarun Ram Phookun, great lawyer, orator, eminent writer and President of the Assam Chhatra Sammelan in 1928, passed away. |
| 7/30/1960 | Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, great freedom fighter, leader and 'Lion of Karnataka', 0died. He was a loyal Congress leader. |
| 4/10/1996 | The marketing of Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Moor's Last Sigh' in India was cleared by the Central govt. |
| 7/27/1927 | Krishna Baldev Vaid, famous story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 1/2/1994 | Landslide win for GNLF in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections. |
| 4/21/1998 | The services of 12 non-railway chairmen of Railway Recruitment Boards are terminated. |
| 5/14/1995 | Major train accident near Salem when KK Express collides with goods train killing 51 people. |
| 12/28/2000 | The Kanchi Acharya presents the Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati national eminence awards to former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi (in absentia), scientist Ramnarayan Agarwal and pravachan artist Rameshbhai Ojha. |
| 4/9/1999 | K. Sasikiran won the National 'A' chess title with a round to spare in Nagpur. |
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