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Historical Event on 4/24/1998

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.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/19/1931The first Round Table Conference held in London ended. This conference was attended by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar also.
1/26/1997Mizoram becomes a dry state, the fourth, after Gujarat, AP and Haryana.
2/2/1982Geet Sethi becomes the youngest Indian to win the National Billiards' crown at Madras.
2/2/1982Babur Shah, Mughal Emperior, defeated Afghan Nawab Nasrat Shah, king of Bengal, on the banks of the Gand and the Ghaghra river.
11/5/1990Janata Dal splits. The breakaway group claims support of 58 M.P.'s to elect Mr. Chandrashekhar as leader. V.P. Singh's government loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha.
1/18/1913Gandhiji refers in ''Indian Opinion'' the possibility of return home to India by mid-year.
1/17/1993LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast.
1/17/1993Sikh Guru Har Govindji, the sixth sikh guru, was born. He fashioned a military role for the Sikhs.
4/23/1992Satyajit Ray, internationally famous Indian film producer-director, Bharat Ratna Awardee, passed away at the age of 70.
2/28/1884Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, passed away.