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Historical Event on 10/24/1995

A total eclipse of the sun witnessed from India to Vietnam.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/19/1966Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.
10/23/1934Gandhi resigns as leader of the All India Congress.
6/3/1992Kerala CM K. Karunakaran injured in a road accident.
1/17/1952The pension work of CDA (Factories), Calcutta and the Defence civilians in ordnance factories was transferred to the office of the CDA (P), Allahabad.
7/3/1985Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1988.
6/16/1893Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar, social worker and industrialist, was born at Athikkadu Thekkur in Tamil Nadu.
10/16/1906Shankar Damodar Chitale, famous author and teacher, was born in Secundarabad.
10/17/19037th Madras Infantry was re-established as 67th Punjabi Infantary.
6/30/1934Chintamani Nagesh Ramachandra Rao, famous Scientist and Chemist, was born. His research work confines to ""Solid State Chemistry"". In 1982 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
10/24/1990BJP-sponsored 'Bharat Bandh' in protest against L. K. Advani's arrest evokeed mixed response.