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Historical Event on 1/24/1958

First international Film Festival started in Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/26/1932Indian Muslim leader demands that Gandhi be released from prison. The Viceroy responded that this was only possible if Gandhi disassociated himself from the civil disobedience campaign.
5/16/1998India rejects China's charges on N-tests.
10/10/1964Gurbachan Singh Randhawa sets record for 110m Her. in 14.09s at Tokyo.
2/10/1946Gandhiji revives 'Harijan' and allied group of weekly journals.
3/4/1961First Indian aircraft carrier naval fighter vessel ''I.N.S. Vikrant'' was commissioned in Belfast.
11/15/199237 die in a landslide at Meghamalai near Chinnamanur.
6/9/1957General Election ( 2nd) of India ends.
10/14/1956Dr. Bhimrao Ramji, Ambedkar and about two lakh scheduled caste men and women embraced Buddhism in Nagpur.
10/14/1956Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan was born.
1/14/1998Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College.