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Historical Event on 1/24/1966
Gulzarilal Nanda stepped down from the position of acting Prime Minister of India. He held his position till January 11, 1966 (Acting).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/22/1897 | The Chafekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna, shot British Officer Rand in Pune. This event played a very important role in the revolutionary freedom fighter. |
| 1/10/1998 | Geet Sethi retains National billiards title in Calcutta. |
| 12/1/1993 | Tata Steel's Amit Bhaduria win's India's first gold medal in the 10th Asian Track and Field meet in Manila in discus throw. |
| 4/24/1993 | IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar. |
| 1/17/1997 | Government rules out granting dual citizenship to NRIs. |
| 3/20/1925 | Marquess Curzon of Kedleston died this morning at age 66 from complications following an operation. Long a kingpin of the Conservative party, Lord Curzon spent 40 years in public life, serving as Viceroy and Governor General of India and, at the end of his career, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Though he came close to becoming prime minister in 1923, his aristocratic past militated against him in an era which nominated leaders from the House of Commons. He twice wed US women and enjoyed fame as an author of books about politics and his own travels. |
| 7/29/1999 | Bandh in Mumbai to protest against the verdict barring Bal Thackeray from voting and contesting any election till December 10, 2001. |
| 4/30/1998 | Anna Hazare, social worker, was awarded the CARE International humanitarian award for 1998. |
| 3/7/1647 | Guru Dadaji Konddev, master of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died. |
| 11/28/1956 | Chou En- lai, Chinese Prime Minister, came to India. |
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