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October 3, 2024

On October 3, 2024, bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India The year's #1 song was "Lose Control" by Teddy Swims. Moo Deng, Moo Deng, Moo Deng would arrive in the same year.

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2024 (MMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2024th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 24th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2020s decade.

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On October 3, 2024

  1. 2024 Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India

    Indo-Aryan language

    Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla, is a classical Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is primarily spoken by the Bengali people, native to the Bengal region as well as in Barak Valley in Assam and Tripura in South Asia. With over 242 million native speakers and another 43 million as second language speakers as of 2025, Bengali is the sixth most spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world.

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Died on October 3, 2024

Michel Blanc French actor, writer and director (1952–2024)
Pierre Christin French comics creator and writer (1938–2024)
Cid Moreira Brazilian journalist and television anchor (1927–2024)
Mary O'Rourke Irish politician (1937–2024)

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Moo Deng 2024– Thai celebrity pygmy hippopotamus

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