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Historical Event on 7/24/1992

Universal Poetry Foundation' was established at Pune.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/20/1993Narsimha Rao, Prime Minister, arrives in Teheran on a three-day visit.
10/24/1984First Metro Train (Underground Train) in India started between Esplanade and Bhowanipore in Calcutta city.
4/11/1999Chetan Baboor and Poulomi Ghatak won the men's and women's titles resp. in the India Cup table tennis in Mumbai.
6/13/1998India rejects G-8 prescriptions saying they are ''coercive and intrusive'' and intend to freeze the nuclear weapon capabilities of New Delhi and Islamabad.
9/8/1960Feroz Gandhi, a prominent member of the Lok Sabha,died in New Delhi.
6/30/1993AN-12 phasing out marked the end of a glorious chapter of transport operations in the IAF.
4/16/1801Warrior Vithoji Holkar of Peshwa kingdom was assassinated.
12/20/1946Gandhiji completes his month-long sojourn at Srirampur.
4/12/1992The 350-tonne Buddha statue salvaged from the Hussain Sagar where it had sunk in 1990.
9/20/1856Narayan Guru was born in Chempazhanthi village of Kerala. Sri Narayan Guru was a social reformer, led reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom and social equality. He also stressed the need for the spiritual and social uplift of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions. In the process, he denounced the superstitions that clouded the fundamental Hindu cultural convention of caste.