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Historical Event on 12/24/1905
Sen Triguna, educationist and technologist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/4/1910 | Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of India (1987-92), was born. |
| 1/23/1999 | An Australian missionary, Graham Stewart Staines, and his two sons Philip and Timothy are burnt to death by miscreants near Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district. |
| 12/11/1906 | Mysore Gururaj Vijayasarathi, cricket Test umpire for 13 tests from 1951-60, was born in Karnataka. |
| 5/8/1997 | India decides to import currency notes for the first time. |
| 12/11/1999 | Leander Paes capped a brilliant year with his successive Challenger title, this time in Jaipur, beating Barry Cowan in the final. |
| 8/22/1980 | Kishor Shahu, actor and director, died. |
| 4/21/1990 | The first indigenously built missile cruiser boat, 'Vibhuti', was inaugurated and launched. |
| 5/18/1974 | First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb. |
| 2/8/1936 | Jawaharlal Nehru elected president of Indian National Congress. |
| 12/17/1830 | Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, died. |
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