On This Day
24 April
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1815 The Gorkha Regiment, considered the first and bravest battalion of the Indian Army, was formed by the East India Company.
- 1959 Jawaharlal Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.
- 1972 Jamini Roy, Indian painter, Padma Bhushan awardee of 1954, died. He remains one of the most famous pupils of Abanindranath Tagore, another praised Indian artist and instructor.
- 1973 Sachin Tendulkar, former international cricketer who captained the Indian national team, was born. He is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.
- 1973 Sachin Tendulkar, former international cricketer who captained the Indian national team, was born. He is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus, Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center, died in Frombork, Poland.
- 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician who proposed that the Sun is the center of the solar system and that the planets circle the Sun, died in Frombork, Poland.
- 1800 The Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, was officially founded.
- 1830 Sarah Josepha Hale's poem Mary had a Little Lamb was published. It is one of the best-known English language nursery rhymes.
- 1967 Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov became the first man to die during a space mission when his spacecraft became entangled in its parachute during an attempted landing.
- ⭐ Significance
- National Panchayati Raj Day, or National Local Self-Government day, is the national day of Panchayati Raj System in India celebrated by Ministry of Panchayati Raj.
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