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Historical Event on 11/24/1926

Aurobindo Ghose, former I.C.S. and revolutionary, attained full enlightenment I.e 'Purna Siddhi'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/29/1995National Sports Day declared.
4/18/1971Air India's first Jumbo Jet Plane passenger Boeing 747 named 'Emperor Samrat Ashok' was landed on Santacruz Airport at Bombay.
1/16/1988L. K. Jha, famous economist and member of Rajya Sabha, died.
5/20/1996CPI Leader Indrajit Gupta appointed pro-term speaker in the Lok Sahba.
11/29/1962Haryana achieved their target of supplying electricity to 100\% villages.
3/1/1939Satish Kumar Sareen was born in Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan). He became the Air Chief Marshal.
6/8/1915P.C.Kuttikrishnan 'Urub', Malyalam story writer and novelist, was born.
4/11/1964Communist Party of India was divided in two parts. Firstly known as Communist Party of India [CPI], its second fragmentation was named as Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)]. This division was on ideological differences at the international level.
3/25/1933Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born.
12/6/1997Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts return to earth following a two-week science mission on an enquiry awaiting them because of botched satellite release. Columbia and its crew of six, including India-born Kalpana Chawla, swooped through a clear chilly sky and landed on runway at Kennedy Space Centre. Astronauts save runaway $10-million satellite by catching it with their hands.