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Historical Event on 2/24/1988
Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/1/1973 | All non-fuel Coal Mines fields were nationalised. |
| 3/8/1673 | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj conquered the fort of Panhala. |
| 12/25/1889 | Pandurangi Kodanda Rao, journalist, Hindi writer and social worker, was born in Visakhapatnam, A.P. |
| 9/21/1962 | Major General I. J. Rikhye completed the task in accordance with the memorandum to UNSF, thus fulfilling the mandate of cessation of hostilities without any incident. |
| 6/19/2000 | Babu Parmanand, former speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, sworn in as the 12th Governor of Haryana. |
| 3/26/1989 | Eighth Antarctica Expedition returns after erecting India's second permanent manned station 'Maitri'. |
| 2/27/1990 | Polls in Pondicherry and eight states. |
| 12/13/1999 | The Railways announces concessions for senior citizens, students upto Class X and the poor. |
| 5/23/1996 | In second phase of elections in Kashmir valley, Anantnag and Baramulla parliamentary constituencies go to the polls. |
| 4/3/1994 | S.Bangarappa, former CM, launches his Karnataka Congress Party. |
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