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Historical Event on 4/24/1918
Durgaprasad Dhar, former Vice President of Planning Commission, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/18/1950 | Batubhai Umarwadia, father of Gujrati literature's English type and drama writer, passed away. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 12/15/1976 | Daily newspaper ""Lokmat"" published it's first Jalgaon edit |
| 9/15/1940 | Anil Yashwant Tipnis, Air Chief Marshal, was born. |
| 5/1/1997 | Anand wins all three categories in Amber chess tournament in Monte Carlo. |
| 2/9/1991 | India holds the last decennial census of the century. |
| 3/11/1997 | Sadhana Mukherjee, a sex-worker from Calcutta, represents India at the first international conference on prostitution beginning in Los Angeles. |
| 5/6/1971 | India refutes allegations that it has meddled in Pakistan's civil war. |
| 2/2/1953 | All India Khadi and Village Industries Board started in New Delhi. |
| 5/8/1996 | Poll counting begins. |
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