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Historical Event on 1/24/1966

Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha, chairmain of Atomic Research Institute, passed away near Geneva when Air India Boeing 707 crashed in accident at Alps Hills, Mont Blanc in Switzerland killing all the 117 persons on board.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/29/1976Parliament approves permanent government and censorship of newspapers at New Delhi.
6/18/1956New Hindu Succession Act was passed.
4/26/1946V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter.
8/27/1992The President issues two ordinances making it mandatory for new medical and dental colleges to obtain prior approval of the Medical and Dental Councils of India before their establishment.
4/9/1999K. Sasikiran won the National 'A' chess title with a round to spare in Nagpur.
1/22/1965Plutonium Project (Sanyantra) was inaugurated at Trombay, Mumbai.
6/10/1984Top army commander killed in Bihar; Sikh troops desert unit.
5/20/1992Jayalalitha sacks R. M. Veerappan from her cabinet in Tamil Nadu.
7/10/1949Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, great Indian cricket player (opener, 10,122 Test runs), was born in Bombay. He has received Arjun Award (1975) and Padma Bhushan (1980).
11/8/1966Rameshwari Nehru, freedom fighter and social worker, died at 80 years in New Delhi. She founded ""Stree-Darpan"" Magazine in 1909 and was president of ""Indian Women Association"". She had received Lenin Peace Prize in 1961 for her humanitarian services for upliftment of the down