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Historical Event on 6/24/1991

Jayalalitha ministry sworn in in Tamil Nadu.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/25/1998Tendulkar's first first-class 204* for Mumbai vs Australia.
1/23/1915Kamal Nayan Bajaj, famous industrialist, was born.
6/5/1996Kubernath Rai, well known writer, passed away.
11/18/1839P Barron discovered Nainital and he was the British sugar merchant of Shahjahanpur.
6/22/1959Iyengar Kasturi Srinivas, great politician and journalist, passed away.
1/18/1930Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore) and Mahatma Gandhi met at Sabarmati Ashram.
9/16/1973Abasaheb Mujumdar, great musician, died.
8/4/2000Pranab Mukherjee and S. Jaipal Reddy, Congress(I) leaders, get Best Parliamentarian awards for the year 1997-98.
3/5/1999The indigenously-built multi-barrel rocket launcher ''Pinaka'' is successfully test-fired at Chandipur-on-sea in Orissa.
3/18/1922Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause.