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Historical Event on 3/24/1987
First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/19/1936 | Satydev Dubey, stage artist, was born. |
| 1/10/1996 | Centre sets up Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission. |
| 3/18/1916 | Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay. |
| 5/6/1775 | Nanda Kumar, king of Calcutta, was arrested. |
| 6/29/1991 | A 32-member Left Front cabinet led by Jyoti Basu sworn in in West Bengal. |
| 1/3/1966 | Chetan Jagatram Manohar Sharma, cricketer (Indian Test pace bowler, World Cup hat-trick 1987), was born in Ludhiana. |
| 2/10/1691 | Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta. |
| 1/21/1993 | Chander Pal at Bangalore sets record for High Jump in 2.17. |
| 2/12/1742 | Nana Phadnavis, one of the important members of Peshwa kingdom and the Maratha master-diplomat, was born. |
| 7/9/1746 | French sailor's fleet reached at the bank of Pondichery in India. |
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