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Historical Event on 3/24/1977
Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister of India at New Delhi. Later he formed his cabinet. He was in the office of Prime Minister till July 28, 1979. This was first non-Congress Government in India.
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| 1/5/1974 | Virendranath Dasgupta, great revolutionary, died. |
| 7/8/1914 | Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister of West Bengal, was born. |
| 12/14/1999 | India lost to Australia by 285 runs in Adelaide in the first cricket Test. |
| 7/7/1999 | M.L. Jaisimha, former Indian Test cricketer, died in Hyderabad. |
| 1/21/1983 | R. D. Katari, the first Indian Admiral of Indian Army, passed away. |
| 4/15/1927 | Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, was born. |
| 7/23/1964 | Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away. |
| 12/1/1928 | The first talkie filmshow, named as 'British Talkies' , was released on December 1, 1928, at Globe Theatres, Calcutta. |
| 9/10/1858 | Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, great author and father of modern Gujarati poems, was born. |
| 9/4/1983 | INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully. |
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