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Historical Event on 6/24/1961

Indian Manufactured Supersonic fighter HF24 flew took to air for the first time.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/19/1938Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, great Indian space scientist and mathematician, was born at Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
10/23/1824Rani Chainema fight with the Britishers at a 'killa' (fort) in Kitur.
12/9/1994Gorprasad Ghosh, famous Orriya film actor, director and producer, passed away.
6/18/1879Venketeshwar Bachhali, famous physics scientist, was born.
2/24/1880Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born.
3/28/1991Chautala asked by Governor to prove his majority on the floor of the house.
4/19/1998Kottayam in Kerala becomes the first district in India to complete computerisation of the talluk offices connecting them with the district headquarters.
10/15/1990Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b-1918), the South African black nationalist leader who arrived in India on a five-day visit. He is the first non-Asian to get this honour.
5/8/1901British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population.
7/7/197378 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India).