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Historical Event on 1/24/1966

Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India. She continued in this office till March 24, 1977, after winning the General Elections. She became the only second woman in modern history to head a government.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/21/1982Nadmuri Tarak Rama Rao forms Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh.
11/28/1997Seven-month-old United Front government, headed by Prime Minister I.K Gujral, bows out of office.
1/14/1995Ban on VHP re-imposed.
4/1/2000India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran.
10/6/1974Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great freedom fighter, barrister, leader, politician, nationalist and member of the Lok Sabha, passed away. He resigned as the defence minister soon after the Chinese aggression.
7/4/2000The trial of the Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi and RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav in the disproportionate assets case begins.
2/13/1991Surjit Singh Barnala resigns as Governor of Tamil Nadu.
1/23/199750,000 miners in Orissa lose jobs as 57 mines are closed down.
4/6/1664Abraham Shipmen died without taking charge of Bombay Islands from Portuguese.
6/20/1756A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here.