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Historical Event on 3/24/1977
Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister of India at New Delhi. Later he formed his cabinet. He was in the office of Prime Minister till July 28, 1979. This was first non-Congress Government in India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/10/1980 | Mangalore University established. |
| 9/3/1992 | Delhi High Court verdict on Bofors challenged in the Supreme Court. |
| 11/21/1947 | First postal stamp of indepedent India of three and half annas denomination was started. Major General Cariappa took over from Lieutenant General Sir Francies Tulker as the Army Commander, Eastern Command, in the rank of Lieutenant General. |
| 5/1/1886 | May Day was first observed in Chicago, USA. Work, Social activities, Rest, for 8 Hours. |
| 9/18/1917 | Sher Singh, educationist and politician, was born at Baghpur (Haryana). |
| 11/17/1925 | Jemini Ganesh, film actor, was born. |
| 12/17/1933 | Lala Amarnath scores a century (118) in his Test Cricket debut. |
| 8/27/1958 | Metric system of weights and measures introduced. |
| 4/7/1934 | Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience in India. |
| 6/1/1959 | The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India. |
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