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Historical Event on 10/24/1975
Bounded labour system was abolished by Ordinance
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/9/1978 | Asian Games begin in Bangkok. |
| 10/1/1990 | Justice Ranganath Mishra appointed Chief Justice of Supreme Court. |
| 4/4/1947 | San Francisco's Henry Grady chosen the first U.S. ambassador to India. |
| 6/12/1970 | Gopinath Kaviraj, Padmavibhushan awardee and critic, passed away. |
| 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. |
| 6/23/1985 | Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died. |
| 10/2/1994 | Gandhi Peace Prize instituted on the lines of Nobel Peace Prize on the great leader's 125th birth anniversary. |
| 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. |
| 6/17/1862 | Lord Charles Jhon Canning, Governor General and Viceroy of India (1856-1862), died. |
| 12/15/1976 | Baichung Bhutia, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Gangtok, Sikkim. |
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