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Historical Event on 11/24/1941
Attack on Pearl Harbour.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/10/1977 | Jahangir Khan, famous musician, passed away. |
| 7/23/1993 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2B), second satellite in the INSAT-2 series, was launched. This is more operational multi-purpose communication and enhanced meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was aunched by European Ariane launch vehicle. |
| 10/3/1994 | Bhushan Tiwari, famous Hindi film actor of yesteryears, died. |
| 3/25/1920 | Sardar Sambhaji Chandrojirao Angre, politician and farmer, was born. |
| 11/21/1961 | Communist China announced a cease-fire in its border war with India and said it would withdraw its troops 12 miles behind the boundary lines that existed in 1959. China said it was making the move to end the hostilities and to implement proposals it had made in October to settle the border dispute. Before the ceasefire, Chinese troops had seized the Indian headquarters at Bomdila near Tibet and were threatening the Indian state of Assam. Faced with defeat on the border and a Chinese invasion, the Indian government said it would ""respond positively"" to the Chinese offer of a ceasef |
| 11/19/2000 | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999. |
| 5/17/1865 | Raobahadur Govind Sakharam Sardesai `Riyasatkar' was born. |
| 12/5/1905 | Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, was born in Soura, Srinagar, Kashmir. |
| 2/21/1672 | A French squadron under De la Haye encountered a fleet of the Dutch, who were in hostility with the French, near Cape Comorin. |
| 1/18/1930 | Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore) and Mahatma Gandhi met at Sabarmati Ashram. |
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