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Historical Event on 3/24/1987
First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/18/1932 | A Hindu delegation is given permission to interview Gandhi, currently held in prison and undertaking a hunger strike. On arrival, they also find he has taken a vow of silence. |
| 3/25/1997 | Justice Jagdish Saran Verma sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
| 12/28/1990 | Following the war threat as the January 15 deadline set by UN for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait approaches, GOI advise Indians in Gulf to send back their families to India. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 10/4/1953 | India elected to the UN Trusteeship Council. |
| 1/31/1997 | Government raises quantity of gold that can be brought into the country by non-residents to 10 kg. (from the existing 5). |
| 6/4/1947 | Dharmanand Damodar Kosambi, internationally famous Pandit of Buddhism, passed away. |
| 2/28/1950 | The Finance Minister announces the setting up of the Planning Commission with Nehru and Nanda as Chairman and Deputy Chairman respectively. |
| 2/1/1964 | Unit Trust of India' established. |
| 7/22/1997 | Bus plummets into the swollen Usri river in Giridih dist, Bihar, killing 70. |
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