24 june in history

Murshidabad was captured by the East India Company under Major Adams for the second time, and Mir Jaffar was declared the King. 1862 On this day, President Abraham Lincoln met with retired General Winfield Scott, a hero of the Mexican War and the commander of all Union forces at the outbreak of the Civil War. 1869 Hari Chapekar Damodar was born virtually. He was the first terrorist of India. 1885 Tara Singh, freedom fighte r and leader of Akali Dal Master, was born in the village Haryal, District Rawalpindi. 1908 Gopinath, famous Kathakali dancer, was born. 1946 Gandhiji meets Cabinet Mission . 1946 Congress party rejects British plan for provisional govt. pending constitution in New Delhi. 1948 One of the most dramatic standoffs in the history of the Cold War began, as the Soviet Union blocked all road and rail traffic to and from West Berlin. The blockade turned out to be a terrible diplomatic move by the Soviets, while the United States emerged from the confrontation with renewed purpose and confidence. 1961 Indian Manufactured Supersonic fighter HF24 and flew it and took to air for the first time. 1974 India all out for 42 in Lord’s Test cricket in 77 mins. 1980 Varahagiri Venkata Giri, former president of India , died at Madras. 1986 Government announced that unmarried mothers under its employment would also get maternity leave. 1990 Defence scientists successfully test fired country’s first third generation anti-tank missile ‘NAG’. 1990 President R. Venkataraman issues notification formally constituting an Inter-State Council. 1991 Pranab Mukherjee was appointed Dy. Chairman of the Planning Commission. 1997 On this day in 1997, U.S. Air Force officials released a 231-page report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, almost exactly 50 years earlier.