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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 |
| 5/27/1952 | United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party - National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as leader. |
| 1/10/1996 | All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films. |
| 1/31/1994 | Punjab and Haryana High Court orders plastic surgery to remove 'Jebkatri' (pickpocket) tattooed on the forehead of four women by Amritsar Police. |
| 3/22/2000 | P. Shanmugham sworn in Chief Minister of Pondicherry. |
| 3/26/1972 | The first International Sanskrit Conference was held by President V.V Giri. |
| 8/13/1998 | India signs two agreements with the World Bank for concessional credit through the International Development Association for $115.4 million. |
| 11/9/1841 | Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), was born. |
| 10/27/1982 | Gandhiji's personal secretary Pyare Lal died. |
| 10/22/1929 | Air Mail Series Stamps were issued. These stamps were of denominations of 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 12 annas. |
| 5/23/1996 | 1995-96 deficit touches a new high at Rs.19,855 crore. |
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