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Historical Event on 6/24/1966
Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/15/1656 | Chhatrapati Shivaji conquered Javali state. |
1/19/1997 | Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad arrives in India on a 4-day visit. |
12/14/1999 | G.M.C. Balayogi, Lok Sabha speaker, presents a draft for over Rs. 32 lakhs to the Prime Minister for the Kargil Fund. |
12/30/1865 | Rudyard Kipling, famous English litterateur and author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), was born in Bombay. |
2/16/1896 | Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', great Hindi poet, litterateur, writer, social worker and editor, was born. |
3/10/1997 | Maharashtra government renames Osmanabad as Dharashiva. |
8/14/1862 | Bombay High Court was established for Maharashtra, Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu territory. This court has benches at Nagpur, Panaji and Aurangabad. |
11/19/1924 | Amarjit Singh, great educationist and scientist, was born at Punjab. |
7/12/1970 | Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives. |
1/18/1842 | Mahadev Govind Ranade was born. He was the chief architect of Bombay Prathana Samaj. |
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