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Historical Event on 6/24/1966

Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die.

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1/18/1997Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme Phase II begins.
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2/1/1894Chitravshastri, Marathi dictionary creator, was born.
3/25/1996CBI gives a clean chit to PM Rao in the St. Kitts case.
2/10/1897Sannidhanam Suryanarayana Sastry, educationist and writer, was born at Chiriwada, (A.P).
8/22/1877Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka.
2/20/1863Pandit A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous Malyalam poet, grammer expert and Sanskrit expert, was born.
7/7/1943Rasbehari Bose handed over the command of 'Azad Hind Fauz' to Netaji Subhashchandra Bose at Singapore.
8/30/1908Ganpatrao Tapase, senior freedom fighter and former Governor of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, was born.