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Historical Event on 6/24/1980

Varahagiri Venkata Giri, former president of India, died at Madras.

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10/19/1888Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem.
8/1/1916Mrs. Annie Besant in cooperation with Bal Gangadhar Tilak started the Home Rule League Movement with Dadabhai Naoroji as its President.
10/9/1987Official Languages Rules, 1976 amended.
8/20/1955Jawaharlal Nehru breaks off relations with the Portuguese after the invasion of Goa by Indian nationalists.
5/29/1906Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay.
5/6/2000Benoy Krishna Chowdhury (89), veteran freedom fighter and prominent CPI(M) leader, died at a Government Hospital in Calcutta.
4/13/1890Ramchandra Gopal Torne (Dadasaheb), film director, was born.
2/26/1857First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry.
2/10/1999P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.
2/19/1891Amrita Bazaar Patrika became a daily newspaper.