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Historical Event on 7/24/1997

Mahasweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, is recipient of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism, literature and creative communication arts for her writings on indigenous communities.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/3/1971Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies.
11/23/1926Satya Sai Baba, Hindu universalist renaissance charismatic guru, educationalist and worker of miracles, was born.
11/19/1978Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for second time.
4/26/1995SAARC decides to launch South Asia Preferential Trade Area (SAPTA).
3/3/1948B. S. Munje, founder of Bhosla Military School, passed away.
3/3/1948Guru Ramdasji died. His son Arjun Dev succeeded him and changed the offerings to the Guru into a regular tax.
9/24/1726King George empowered the company to establish Municipal Corporation and Mayor s Courts in Bombay and Calcutta.
6/16/1946Cabinet Mission negotiations were discontinued. Viceroy proposed Interim Government.
5/27/1930India's major cities are seething with unrest following the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of his followers in the campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. Civil unrest in Bombay, where at least six were killed and sixty injured.
8/12/199272 militants surrendered before Punjab CM Beant Singh.