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Historical Event on 6/24/1991

Pranab Mukherjee appointed Dy. Chairman of the Planning Commission.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/9/1997Bangladesh and Chakma refugee leaders sign a historic agreement for repatriation of the 50,000 refugees sheltered in six camps in Tripura for the past 11 years.
4/19/1995Rajendra Kumari Bajpai appointed the Lt. Governor of Pondichery.
3/16/1912Gandhiji commends Gokhale's attempts for abolition of indenture system.
11/29/1952First international organization for birth control founded in Bombay.
1/18/1994A 12-point formula mooted to defuse the ministerial crisis.
5/19/1908Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born.
1/4/1932Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants.
5/6/1971D. Sen became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 29/03/77).
5/9/1996LDF wins 80 sets and UDF 59 in Kerala elections .
1/7/1988Mrs. Janaki Ramachandran sworn in as CM of Tamil Nadu.