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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.
24 June
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1564 Rani Durgavati, Queen of Gondwana, died in battlefield fighting the Mughal army. Her martyrdom day is commemorated as "Balidan Diwas" in Madhya Pradesh.
- 1763 Murshidabad was captured by the East India Company under Major Adams for the second time, and Mir Jaffar was declared the King.
- 1946 Gandhiji meets Cabinet Mission.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armée numbering half a million begin their invasion of Russia by crossing the Nieman River.
- 1896 Booker T Washington became the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University.
- 1901 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso aged 19, opens in Paris.
- 1947 An American pilot reported seeing strange flying objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington. He described them as "saucers skipping across the water", hence the term "flying saucers" was born.
- 1948 The Berlin Blockade begins. In reaction to the currency reform in West Germany, the Soviet Union blocked all access to West Berlin.
- 1987 Lionel Messi, Argentine professional footballer, was born.
- 2010 Julia Gillard became Australia's first woman prime minister.
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