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Historical Event on 10/24/1984
First Metro Train (Underground Train) in India started between Esplanade and Bhowanipore in Calcutta city.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/2/1971 | Gandhi Sadan was handed over to the nation. |
| 5/28/1978 | The kiss comes to the Hindi screen in 'Love Sublime,' and is seen as a sign of what the govt. calls greater 'creative freedom,' after Indira Gandhi's authoritarian rule at Bombay. |
| 8/7/1947 | BEST services were started by Mumbai Mahanagarpalika. |
| 7/25/1955 | Indian Government declared in Lok Sabha that Portuguese's were asked to close their offices in New Delhi. |
| 1/20/1994 | Chinese film 'Farewell, My Concubine' and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 'Vidheyan' adjudged best Foreign and Indian films in the 25th International Film Festival at Calcutta. |
| 4/14/1993 | The Cabinet Committee approves delicensing of car, refrigerator and leather goods industries. |
| 10/17/1859 | Keshavlal Harshrai Dhruv, researcher and translator, was born. |
| 2/10/1995 | PM appoints Madhavrao Scindia as Human Resource Minister, Pranab Mukherjee as External Minister, Buta Singh as Civil Supplies, Ajit Singh as Food, and P. Chidambaram as Commerce Minister. |
| 8/30/1645 | Indians and Dutch sign the peace treaty. |
| 5/20/1972 | Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of 2nd Howrah bridge at Calcutta. |
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