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Historical Event on 6/24/1897
Padmashree Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, famous music director of Gwalior Gharana, was born at Gujrat.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/1/1996 | P. Shiv Shanker, Kerala Governor, resigns in view of the ongoing CBI investigation against him in the hawala case. |
| 10/5/1805 | Lord Charles Cornwallis, Governor General, died of ill health at Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
| 2/1/1990 | Governors named for 14 states. |
| 2/25/1897 | Dr. Amarnath Jha, educationist, was born. |
| 7/2/1997 | Screening for Hepatitis C made mandatory all over India. |
| 10/18/1995 | Punjab CM Harcharan Singh Brar inducts All India Youth Congress President Maninderjit Singh Bitta in to the cabinet. |
| 10/27/1999 | P.M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) re-elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha. |
| 3/26/1989 | Eighth Antarctica Expedition returns after erecting India's second permanent manned station 'Maitri'. |
| 6/21/1930 | Five hundred were hurt as police charged Bombay mob. |
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