Quick glance of 24 April in the pages of History

April 24: Here are the major events that occurred on 24 April….

• 24 April, 1184: The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)
• 24 April, 1311: General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India.
• 24 April, 1888: Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief minister of Assam and Governor of Madras, was born at Hajo.
• 24 April, 1918: Durgaprasad Dhar, former Vice President of Planning Commission, was born.
• 24 April, 1929: First non-stop flight from England to India takes-off.
• 23 April, 1932: 450 people seized by British for defying ban on Indian National Congress.

• 24 April, 1942: Dinanath Mangeshkar, famous Marathi singer, nationalist, musician and actor, passed away at the age of 41.
• 24 April, 1957: The conflict between Egypt on the one hand and France, the United Kingdom and Israel on the other, erupted in October 1956 when Egypt announced that the canal will be nationalized.
• 24 April, 1959: Jawaharlal Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.
• 24 April, 1966: Margashayam Venkataramana, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 1989), was born in Secunderabad.
• 24 April, 1972: Jamini Roy, Padmabhushan awardee and famous painter, passed away.
• 24 April, 1973: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian capt at 23), was born in Bombay.

• 24 April, 1974: Ramdhari Singh alias ‘Dinkar’, veteran famous Hindi writer and poet, passed away.
• 24 April, 1993: IA’s Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar.
• 24 April, 1996: SC holds that bank managers acting beyond their authority in allowing overdrafts and passing cheques would be amounted to committing misconduct.
• 24 April, 1998: India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah, beating Australia by six wickets in the final.

• 24 April, 1998: 24 persons are killed and 28 injured when some bogies of a goods train break free and roll back to collide with the stationary Manmad-Kacheguda Express at Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra.
• 24 April, 2011: Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual guru, passed away
• 24 April, 2013: 1129 people die in Bangladesh in the worst building collapse disaster in modern history. The building was used by clothing factories producing garments for western markets, highlighting the disastrous working conditions in the industry.