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Historical Event on 10/24/1505

Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/2/1948Communist leader S.A. Dange arrested in Bombay.
5/12/1966Sardar Sikandar Hayat, President of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, resigns.
2/19/1992The ruling Congress party wins local elections boycotted by Sikhs in Punjab.
4/5/1990Mrs.Sheela Flather, an Indian national, becomes the first Asian to be nominated to the House of Lords.
12/7/2000A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam.
12/29/1972Construction work of Metro Train in Calcutta commenced.
12/29/1972Vasco De Gama, Portuguese navigator who discovered India, died in Cochin.
7/29/1979Choudhary Charan Singh was sworn in as the fifth Prime Minister of India heading the Janata (S)-Congress coalition. He held this office till January 14, 1980. Jagjivan Ram became the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
7/3/1908Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested as a traitor by the Britishers.
2/14/16285th Mughal Emperor Shahjahan was crowned.