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Historical Event on 10/24/1995
Total solar eclipse seen over Rajasthan, UP, Bihar and West Bengal, while partial eclipse seen in the rest of the country.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/4/1977 | Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister, was released off the charges of corruption. |
| 1/26/1981 | Vayudoot air service started with a flight of a F27, from Guwahati airport. This is the third Indian airline inaugurated. |
| 12/5/1951 | Abanindranath Tagore, a great Modern Indian Painter, passed away. |
| 10/9/2000 | A special court convicts former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha and her associate Sasikala and sentences them to undergo three years imprisonment and two years rigorous imprisonment in two 'Tansi land deal' cases. |
| 11/7/1958 | Nehru said the role of Gen. Mohammed Ayub Khan in Pakistan had increased the 'risk and danger of war' between India and Pakistan. |
| 10/6/1969 | Bruna Coutinho, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Calangute, Goa. He was recognised as Indian Player of the Year in 1996. |
| 10/9/1994 | Kamal Bose, great photographer, died. |
| 9/2/1911 | Chamaklal Dahyabhai Vyas, great poet, was born at Gujarat, Vyara. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 9/29/1971 | Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000 people. |
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