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Historical Event on 6/24/1969
Ted Hecht, actor (Time to Kill, Song of India, Gangster), passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/24/1991 | The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused. |
| 11/16/1992 | Reservation, Supreme Court rejects economic criteria. |
| 9/11/1950 | Sorabjee Harmasji Colah, cricketer (69 runs in India's first 2 tests 1932-33), passed away. |
| 8/17/1761 | William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people. |
| 6/22/1993 | Ordinance to amend Consumer Act was issued; Government doctors and hospitals were kept out of its ambit. |
| 1/29/1853 | Madhusudan Rao, modern writer in Oria language, was born. |
| 7/6/1942 | Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter and editor of ""Janma Bhoomi"", died due to non-medical facility and mal-nutrition in Jail. She has also written ""Karagaar Ke Anubhav"" in 1930. She was arrested for Satyagrah and forcefully closing of Foreign Goods. |
| 4/24/1995 | K. Karunakaran elected to Rajya Sabha. |
| 3/23/2000 | Udham Singh (72), hockey legend, died at his home town in Sansarpur (near Jalandhar). |
| 5/31/1998 | B. R. Rawat, an Indian diplomat, is assaulted by a Pakistani private security guard in Islamabad. |
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