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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
7/31/1988Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
7/5/1999Two buses, which were inaugurated from Dhaka, arrive in Calcutta.
8/15/1872Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry.
6/1/1992S.K. Datta became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/07/93).
6/26/1983Five hundred killed or missing as monsoon floods hit the Indian state of Gujarat.
5/9/1996Kerala CM A.K. Antony resigns.
4/19/1976Maharshi Dayanand University established in Haryana.
5/21/1994The Union Government imposes blanket ban on capitation fee for admission to private professional colleges.
2/26/1996Sahib Singh Verma sworn in as Delhi's second CM.
12/21/1952Saifuddin Kitchlu awarded the Lenin Peace Prize of U.S.S.R. Award. He was the first Indian to receive this honour.