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Historical Event on 6/24/1969
Ted Hecht, actor (Time to Kill, Song of India, Gangster), passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
10/5/1890 | Kishorlal Ghanshyamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, was born. |
8/10/1758 | Marathas won the Atak. |
3/1/1978 | Justice Y. Y. Chandrachud is sworn in as the Chief Justice of India. |
3/12/1993 | Powerful bomb blasts at twelve various places in Mumbai takes 317 lives. |
4/11/1906 | K.V. Jagannathan, great Hindi writer and journalist, was born at Krishnarayapuram,Tamil Nadu. |
10/20/1962 | The first IAFunit No. 2 squadron re-equipped with the Gnat at Ambalan and No.9 squadron soon followed suit. |
2/14/1901 | Sambamurty Pichhu, music teacher, was born. |
8/14/1987 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour. |
4/1/1985 | Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture was established during the 7th Plan period. The Institute started functioning independently since April 1987. The Headquarters of the Institute are located in Chennai with field and farm facilities at Muttukadu and three Research Centres at Kakdwip(West Bengal), Puri(Orissa) and Narakkal (Kerala). |
11/14/1993 | Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, who quit JD, joins BJP. |
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