On This Day
24 February
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1739 Battle of Karnal took place in which the army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeated the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
- 1786 Charles Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India.
- 2010 Sachin Tendulkar scores the first double century in One Day International cricket.
- 2011 Anant Pai, educationalist and a pioneer in Indian comics, died at Mumbai. He is most famous as the creator of two comic book series viz. Amar Chitra Katha, which retold traditional Indian folk tales, mythological stories, and biographies of historical characters; and Tinkle, a children's anthology.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1821 Mexico declared its independence from Spain.
- 1955 American businessman Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Inc. and a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer era, was born.
- 1968 The discovery of a pulsar was announced by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish. A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles.
- 1974 Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh.
- 2020 American mathematician Katherine Johnson—whose trailblazing work at NASA became known to a wide audience through the book Hidden Figures and its film adaptation (both 2016)—died at age 101.
- ⭐ Significance
- Central Excise Day is celebrated every year on February 24. The day is celebrated to honour the service of the Central Board of Excise and Custom (CBEC) to the country.
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