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Historical Event on 12/24/1524
Vasco De Gama, Portuguese navigator who discovered India, died in Cochin.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/15/1991 | The 25-day-old Narasimha Rao government wins a vote of confidence in Lok Sabha by securing 241 to 111; 112 abstained. |
| 6/19/1871 | Madhavrao Sapre was born. |
| 6/20/1985 | The Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian decoration, was presented to Mother Teresa by President Ronald Reagan. |
| 1/16/1985 | Balram Jakhar elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha. |
| 10/16/1971 | David Jude Johnson, cricketer (Karnataka fast bowler, India 1996), was born in Arasikere. |
| 5/22/1927 | Nihal Ahmed Maulavi Mo. Usman, leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 4/20/1989 | Launching of IRBM `Agni' fails. |
| 12/28/1931 | The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him. |
| 12/28/1926 | Shirish Kumar, freedom figher, was born. |
| 8/13/1638 | Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, was born at Salwa. |
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