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Historical Event on 6/24/1980

Varahagiri Venkata Giri, former president of India, died at Madras.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/8/1932Indian Air Force Act was passed.
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11/15/2000India cancels cricket series with Pakistan in January next on account of Islamabad's ''hostile propaganda''.
7/2/1992Six new ministers inducted into the Union Cabinet.
3/3/1707Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First.
12/31/1802Peshwa Baji Rao-II, after being defeated by Yashwant Rao Holkar, signed the treaty of Subsidiary Allowance and accepted security of British Government.
7/24/1783Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, was born at Carcas.
7/24/1783Buhlul Khan Lodi, an Afghan of Lodi tribe, marched down upon Delhi.
7/24/1997Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.