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Historical Event on 6/24/1990

Defence scientists successfully test fired country's first third generation anti-tank missile 'NAG'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/1/1920Kirloskar, monthly magzine, was published.
9/26/1820Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal.
9/1/1942Rasbihari Bose established the Indian National Army.
3/27/1989T. N. Seshan was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 23-12-1989.
10/4/1953India elected to the UN Trusteeship Council.
9/16/1990Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
5/4/1849Jyotirindranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur and poet, was born.
11/8/1965British Indian Ocean Territory formed.
3/2/1949Sarojini Naidu, ""Nightingale of India"", freedom fighter, social worker and patriot, passed away when she was the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. She also holds a place of pride among the women freedom fighters of India. She presided over the Kanpur session of Indian National Congress. She took active part in Salt Satyagraha and represented Indian women in Round Table Conference, London, 1931.
4/23/1928Narasimha Murtey, educationist, was born at Nandur, A.P.