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Historical Event on 12/24/1524
Vasco De Gama, Portuguese navigator who discovered India, died in Cochin.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/19/1907 | Sulochana Modi, first lady Mayor of Mumbai Mahanagar Palika, was born. |
| 2/28/1997 | The samadhi of Morarji Desai - Abhay Ghat - near Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad to be converted to a national monument, this was decided on Feburary 11. |
| 9/19/1960 | Sindhu River water-sharing settement was signed between India and Pakistan. |
| 5/28/1989 | Kerala diocese of Marathakavalli was the first Christian priest in India. |
| 8/1/1958 | Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership given to Acharya Bhave. |
| 9/4/1998 | Mumbai Metropolitan court acquits Union Minister for Environment and Forests Suresh Prabhu in a case of cheque bouncing. |
| 6/24/1966 | Atul Chandrakant Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman from 1994), was born in Bombay. |
| 6/24/1966 | Husain Quli, the new Governor of Bengal, defeated the rebels and put them to fight. Daud was captured and put to death. |
| 10/28/2000 | The Royal Canadian Mounted police arrest two Sikhs, Ripudaman Singh Malik (53) and Ajaib Singh Bagri (51), in Vancouver in connection with the downing of Air India Boeing 747 en route from Canada to London in 1985. |
| 2/15/1924 | Mahinder Singh, social worker, was born at Amritsar. |
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