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Historical Event on 9/24/1994
At least 100 people die after an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the western city of Surat.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
11/22/1968 | Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu. |
8/12/1602 | Abul Fazal, Akbar's minister, was killed on the instructions of Jahangir. |
9/20/1998 | A. B. Bardhan is re-elected CPI general secretary. |
9/16/1990 | Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War. |
10/9/1994 | Kamal Bose, great photographer, died. |
10/6/1893 | Meghnad N. Saha, astrophysicist, was born. In 1920, he developed the 'Thermal Ionization Equation', which has remained fundamental in all works on stellar atmospheres. This equation has been widely applied to the interpretation of stellar spectra, which are characteristic of the chemical composition of the light source. |
4/4/1990 | Lata Mangeshkar wins 1989 Dada Saheb Phalke award. |
1/6/1972 | America declared Naval Drill in the Indian Ocean. |
6/24/1996 | Nanchil K. Manoharan, former DMK Finance Minister, expelled from the party. |
8/25/1992 | Veerappa Moily, Karnataka minister, stripped of Education portfolio. |
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