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24 June - India on this day26 events

1869

Hari Chapekar Damodar was born virtually. He was the first terrorist of India.

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1885

Tara Singh, freedom fighter and leader of Akali Dal Master, was born in the village Haryal, District Rawalpindi.

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1897

Padmashree Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, famous music director of Gwalior Gharana, was born at Gujrat.

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1901

John Thottam (Sir Marry Benigna C.D.) Marry, great poetess and teacher, was born in Elangi village at Kerala.

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1908

Gopinath, famous Kathakali dancer, was born.

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1928

Mrinal Keshav Gore, leader in Maharashtra, was born.

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1966

Atul Chandrakant Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman from 1994), was born in Bombay.

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1966

Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die.

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1763

Murshidabad was captured by the East India Company under Major Adams for the second time, and Mir Jaffar was declared the King.

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1946

Gandhiji meets Cabinet Mission.

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1961

Indian Manufactured Supersonic fighter HF24 flew took to air for the first time.

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1986

Government announced that unmarried mothers under its employment would also get maternity leave.

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1990

Defence scientists successfully test fired country's first third generation anti-tank missile 'NAG'.

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1974

India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins.

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1969

Ted Hecht, actor (Time to Kill, Song of India, Gangster), passed away.

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1980

Varahagiri Venkata Giri, former president of India, died at Madras.

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1991

Two LIC officers burnt to death in Kashmir.

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1946

Congress party rejects British plan for provisional govt. pending constitution in New Delhi.

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1989

A majority of opposition members in the Lok Sabha resign on the issue of CAG report on the Bofors gun deal.

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1991

Jayalalitha ministry sworn in in Tamil Nadu.

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1991

K. Karunakaran ministry assumes power in Kerala.

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1991

The first-ever BJP ministry led by Kalyan Singh takes over in UP.

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1990

President R. Venkataraman issues notification formally constituting an Inter-State Council.

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1993

Nanchil K. Manoharan, former DMK Finance Minister, expelled from the party.

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1996

Cong(I) enters into an electoral alliance with Bahujan Samaj Party for forthcoming Assembly election in UP.

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1996

CBI grills PV Prabhakar Rao again (urea scam).

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