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Historical Event on 10/24/1890
Shishirkumar Mitra, Physics expert, was born in Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/19/1975 | Farm truck packed with wedding party run over by a train, killing 66 in truck, at 40 miles south of Pune. |
| 9/21/1997 | Mahesh Bhupathi wins a cliff-hanger as India clinches Davis Cup World Group play-off tie against Chile 3-2 in Delhi. |
| 12/8/1932 | Indian Air Force Act was passed. |
| 10/20/1962 | China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level. |
| 2/4/1974 | Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924. |
| 12/26/1914 | Dr. Shushila Nair, social reformer, was born in village Kunjah, district Gunjra, Punjab (now Pakistan). She dedicated her life to serve Gandhiji and Gandhi Ashram and also performed the duties of Indian citizen by taking active participation in freedom movement. |
| 2/1/1976 | Air Marshal Hrushikesh Moolgavkar PVSM, MVC, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/Aug/1978. |
| 6/23/1975 | Prannath Thapar, former Chief of Army, died. |
| 8/2/1984 | 32 people died in a bomb explosion at Meenambakkam Airport. |
| 9/29/2000 | India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics. |
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