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Historical Event on 7/24/1997

Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1984Ravishankar Maharaj, freedom fighter and national leader of the country, died at the age of 101.
1/3/1978Chandrasekar takes 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win.
5/5/1947Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
5/10/1996PM P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Council of Ministers resign.
6/18/1997Prakash Padukone launches IBC.
11/14/1955Employees' State Insurance Corporation was inaugurated by the President.
11/9/1990JD expels Gujarat CM Chimanbhai Patel and UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav from Legislative wings and primary membership of the party.
1/7/1993The union govt. acquires 67.703 acres of land in and around the disputed area at Ayodhya and refers the issue to the Supreme Court.
6/27/1917Khanderao Moreshwar Rangnekar, cricketer (batted in 3 Tests India v Australia 1947-48), was born in Maharashtra.