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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 |
| 1/28/1895 | Shankarrao Dattatray Dev, veteran Congress leader, Gandhian and Sarvoday leader, was born. |
| 5/19/1971 | Indian Navy's first submarine station started at 'Veer Bahu' in Visakhapatanam. |
| 9/7/1999 | India rejects Pakistan demand for a East Timor type of referendum in Kashmir. |
| 10/28/1929 | Narotam Puna, cricketer (Bombay NZ off-spinner v England 1966), was born. |
| 5/1/1996 | Motilal Vohra, U.P. Governor, resigns (hawala case). |
| 7/8/1991 | 25 tonnes of gold moved to London from India to raise $ 200 million loan. |
| 8/3/1995 | Enron Power Project scrapped by Maharashtra government. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 1/27/1904 | R. P. Kanitkar, veteran writer, nationalist, journalist and editor, was born. |
| 2/2/1967 | US President Johnson orders consignment of 2 mil. tons of food grains to be sent to India. |
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