Year 1505
Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India.
OCTOBER 24
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24 October: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 24 October.
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United Nations Day
World Development Information Day
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Year 1579
Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619.
Year 1605
Mughal Emperor Jahangir became the fourth Emperor of Mughal Empire at Agra.
Year 1657
Kalyan and Bhiwandi came under the rule of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
Year 1851
William Lassell discovered the Umbrellas and Ariel moons of the planet Uranus.
Year 1851
First official telegraph line was opened between Calcutta and Daimond Harbour spanning 33.8 km.
Year 1856
Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was arrested by the British Government at Sambalpur for distributing grains from the warehouse to the people. He was sent to jail at Raipur.
Year 1857
Sheffield FC opened in Sheffield, England, the world’s oldest football club.
Year 1901
Anne Edson Taylor became the first person to jump out of a barrel at Niagara Falls.
Year 1909
Vinayak Savarkar celebrated Dussehra for the first time in London under the presidency of Gandhi.
Year 1945
United Nations was established after World War II with the signature of 50 countries.
Year 1946
Earth was first photographed from space.
Year 1949
United Nations headquarters began operations.
Year 1953
Selection of the Dassault Ouragan fighter from France at this time reflected the decision to initiate diversification of supply sources. The first four of over 100 Ouragans, or 'Toofanis' as they were to become known in the IAF, reached Palam Airport from France and this type re-equipped Nos.8, 3 and 4 Squadrons in that order.
Year 1963
Due to the drought in India, rice was banned in public and at large ceremonies.
Year 1964
Northern Rhodesia gained independence from the United Kingdom and is renamed Zambia.
Year 1966
Yugoslavia, UAR call on the US at New Delhi to stop bombing of North Vietnam.
Year 1975
Bounded labour system was abolished by Ordinance.
Year 1984
The first subway in India was started at Kolkata. The First Metro Train (Underground Train) in India started between Esplanade and Bhowanipore in Calcutta city.
Year 1997
Satar player Pandit Ravi Shankar was awarded the Premium Imperial International Award of Japan for his outstanding achievements in the field of music.
Year 1997
Kerala bans ragging in educational institutions by an ordinance.
Year 2000
Central Government’s Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Award was announced to Baba Amte.
Year 2004
Brazil performed the first successful rocket test in space.
Year 2003
Concorde’s last commercial flight.
Year 2016
Cyrus Mistry fired as Tata Group chairman.
Year 2018
Indian cricketer Virat Kohli becomes the 12th and the fastest-ever to score 10,000 runs in one-day international matches, taking just 205 innings.
Born 1632
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist.
Born 1775
Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last Mughal emperor.
Born 1789
Jean C Baud, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1834-6), was born.
Born 1827
Viceroy Lord Rippan (1880-1884) was born.
Born 1865
Bhagvat Singh was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Gondal.
Born 1868
Balasaheb Pantpratinidhi, king of Aundh and painter, was born.
Born 1871
Padmanath Gohain Baruah was the first president of Asam Sahitya Sabha.
Born 1883
Mirza Ismail was an Indian statesman who was the Diwan of the Kingdoms of Mysore, Jaipur and Hyderabad.
Born 1890
Shishirkumar Mitra, Physics expert, was born in Calcutta.
Born 1891
Rafael Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic.
Born 1894
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1987)
Born 1904
Lalchand Hirachand, famous industialist, was born.
Born 1914
Captain Lakshmi Sahgal, Indian Independence movement revolutionary and Officer of Indian National Army (d. 2012)
Born 1921
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman (R. K. Laxman) was an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist.
Born 1926
Kedarnath Sahani, Governor of Sikkim and Mayor of Delhi.
Born 1930
Raj Bagri, Indies and British merchant in metal, was born.
Born 1933
Govindjee, famous scientist, was born in Allahabad, U.P. He found cutting plant sections easier than dissection of animals.
Born 1934
Mahatma Gandhi quits Indian Indian National Congress in struggle over tactics.
Born 1935
Mark Tully, Indian-English journalist and author
Born 1938
Farooq Rehmany Mohammad, journalist, social reformer and political worker, was born at Bandipur.
Born 1940
Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, Indian space scientist who headed the Indian Space Research Organisation.
Born 1955
Ghulam Ahmad Hasan Muhammad Parkar, cricketer (Indian batsman vs England 1982), was born in Kalusta, Maharashtra.
Born 1960
Himani Shivpuri, Indian actress known for her supporting roles in Bollywood films and Hindi soap operas.
Born 1963
Arvind Raghunathan, Indian-American industrialist.
Born 1974
Anurag Thakur, member of the Lower House of Parliament in India from Hamirpur.
Born 1976
Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress who predominantly works in Hindi language films.
Born 1980
Kaushiki Chakraborty, Indian classical vocalist.
Born 1986
Drake, Canadian rapper, songwriter, and actor.
Died 1601
Tycho Brahe, Dutch astronomer.
Died 1922
George Cadbury, the founder of Cadbury.
Died 1944
Louis Renault, French industrialist, founder of the Renault Company.
Died 1954
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai was a politician, an Indian independence activist and a socialist.
Died 1979
Carlo Abarth, Austrian automobile designer, founder of the Abarth Company.
Died 1991
Jean Roddenberry, American screenwriter, Star Trek creator.
Died 1991
Ismat Chugtai, famous Urdu author, social worker and campaigner for justice for women, died at the age of 80 years.
Died 2004
Kollur Mallappa was the first President of Hyderabad Pradesh Congress Committee.
Died 2011
John McCarthy, father of the Lisp programming language.
Died 2013
Manna Dey was an internationally acclaimed Indian playback singer, music director, musician and Indian classical vocalist.
Died 2014
S. S. Rajendran, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)
Died 2017
Girija Devi, Indian classical singer (b. 1929)