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Historical Event on 6/24/1966

Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/10/1966MIG aeroplanes were designed at Nashik.
1/24/1924Karpoori Thakur ""Jan Nayak"", freedom fighter, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, was born in village Samastipur, District Bihar.
11/18/1948Nearly 500 people were drowned when the ferry steamer Narayan River capsized and sank in the Ganga near Patna.
10/15/1977The Congress party denies bid by Indira Gandhi to regain leadership.
11/19/1998A. B. Vajpayee approves formation of the National Security Council, a new high-power hub, to give policy directions to safeguard the country's security.
12/25/1879Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born.
5/30/1995Notification issued for the constitution of Jharkhand Autonomous District Council.
12/9/1992More than 700 die in clashes in Ayodhya; BJP bandh partial.
1/26/1982Meera Behn (Medlin Slade) freedom fighter, and Gandhin by thought awarded 'Padma Vibhushan'.
10/21/1916Dinkarrai Dhirajlal Desai, cricket Test Umpire for 3 tests from 1955-57, was born in Gujarat.