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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
6/20/1997Second round of Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan starts in Islamabad.
3/7/1987Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first batsman to score 10,000 test runs in cricket a match against Pakistan at Ahmedabad.
4/5/1987The centenary of Bombay Fire Brigade was celebrated. (CIVIC).
11/24/1952Brijesh Parsuram Patel, cricketer (Indian batsman 1974-77), was born in Baroda.
5/1/1995SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent.
7/19/1998The INSAT-2C satellite suffers ``disorientation'' - loss of earth lock - briefly.
2/5/1919Sitaram Kesri, veteran Congress leader, was born.
12/15/1965Third cyclone of the year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges river.
12/15/1965Emperor Humayun, son of Babar, was born in Kabul.
12/22/1940Manvendranath Rai established the Radical Democratic Party.