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Historical Event on 6/24/1966
Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/26/1926 | Kankalta, freedom fighter, was born in Bargawadi village at Assam . She was shot when she tried to flur the Indian National Flag in Gopur, Assam. |
| 2/18/1992 | Vasantrao Karnik, great journalist, passed away. |
| 11/23/1991 | Bhaskaracharya Research Institute established at Dhule. |
| 12/8/1994 | At 1730 hrs, a rocket propelled grenade fired by Somalia militia during inter clan fighting exploded on the roof of the barrack which housed IAF officers. In the explosion, two officers and an airman were injured. |
| 3/2/1938 | Chandrakumar Agarwala, assamia poet, passed away. |
| 5/27/1919 | Kandukuri Veeresalingam, father of modern Telgu language, author and social reformer, passed away. |
| 7/15/1980 | Gajanan Vishwanath Ketkar, editor of `Kesri' and `Maratha', passed away. |
| 8/22/1818 | Warren Hastings, first Governor General of India (1773-84), died at the age of 85. |
| 6/17/1993 | Congress (I) working committee reaffirms its faith in Rao; BJP asks for PM's resignation . |
| 9/26/1923 | Dev Anand, film producer, director and actor, was born. |
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