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Historical Event on 6/24/1980
Varahagiri Venkata Giri, former president of India, died at Madras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/16/1923 | Narayan Athavle, famous Marathi litterateur and journalist, was born. |
| 5/28/1895 | Bagal Bhai Madhavrao Khanderao, freedom fighter, author and painter, was born. |
| 1/9/1922 | Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley. |
| 3/25/1933 | Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born. |
| 5/18/1972 | Kokan Krishi (Agriculture) University was established. |
| 8/9/1893 | Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi story writer and novelist, was born at Bihar in a middle class family. |
| 1/29/1994 | Air India and Indian Airlines converted into companies. |
| 11/17/1935 | Deodhar Gopal Krishna, great social worker and architect of ""Seva Sadan"" (Pune), passed away. |
| 3/15/1950 | Planning Commission Day. |
| 2/7/1931 | Shila Kaul, the chief minister of New Delhi, was born. |
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