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Historical Event on 7/24/1932

Ramkrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan was established for the service of the sick and humanitarian activities.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/20/1948Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union.
10/19/1990The Government of India under an ordinance puts forward a three-point formula for Ayodhya issue: (i) to acquire the land (ii) other land may be given for building temple except the disputed one (iii) the issue may referred to Supreme Court for speedy solution.
3/2/1986Kashinath Ghanekar, famous stage artist, passed away.
12/6/1946Homeguard Organination was established.
3/9/1966India yields to Sikh demand for Punjab-speaking state.
3/9/1966Amarsingh, Rajput king of Mewar, was born.
12/11/1998Kavi Pradeep (84), poet who received 1998 Dadasaheb Phalke award, dies in Mumbai. He was a patriotic song writer and wrote several immortal Hindi film songs.
1/19/1966Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.
7/22/1987A.G. Kripal Singh, 14 Tests for India and one century on debut, passed away.
1/4/1932Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants.