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Historical Event on 1/24/1958

First international Film Festival started in Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/23/1991Major parties agree to have polls in Punjab.
2/8/1948Indian govt. bans Muslim groups 'Khaksars' and 'League National Guard'.
7/27/19987 Hindus are gunned down in two Doda villages of Jammu and Kashmir.
4/22/1996National Stock Exchange launches a new equity index - the NSE 50.
2/11/1998The Punjab police unearth a plot to kill Prime Minister I. K. Gujral, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, and Congress(I) leader Sonia Gandhi by a pro-Khalistan militant group.
11/2/1992Nine Maharashtra ministers resign.
5/27/1968Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously.
9/17/1885Keshav Sitaram Thakrey, journalist, social reformer and historian, was born.
3/24/1992Congress (I) strength goes up by six seats in the Rajya Sabha on account of biennial polls.
1/18/1985Spy ring cracked. Top Government officials, businessmen held.