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Historical Event on 1/24/1966

Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India. She continued in this office till March 24, 1977, after winning the General Elections. She became the only second woman in modern history to head a government.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/13/1936Madam Bhikaji Rustom Cama, freedom fighter, Indian lady revolutionary and politician, passed away at Bombay.
9/29/19881988 Nobel Peace Prize for U.N. Peace-Keeping Forces.
11/27/2000Supreme Court grants bail to four AIADMK men accused in the 2nd February Dharmapuri bus burning incident.
7/13/1999Militants attack the residential complex of Border Security Force (BSF) in Madar village near Bandipur and take 12 persons as hostages after killing four.
8/25/1975Bundelkhand University was established in Uttar Pradesh.
10/2/1994Gandhi Peace Prize instituted on the lines of Nobel Peace Prize on the great leader's 125th birth anniversary.
12/22/1853Saradamoni Devi was born in Jairambati of Hooghly district.
8/19/1927Ananta Narsinha Naik, social reformer and politician, was born at Bandora, Goa.
12/10/1999Dara Singh, the prime accused in the killing of Australian missionary, again gives a slip to police.
3/20/2000Unidentified militants gun down 35 Sikhs in the south Kashmir village of Chatti Singhpora in one of the worst incidents of violence in the State.