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Historical Event on 3/24/1987
First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/19/1944 | Azad Hind Fauj hoisted the National Flag for the first time in North East India. On this event Bimal Roy produced the film 'Pehla Aadmi'. |
| 8/9/1969 | Ochterlony Memorial in Calcutta was renamed as 'Shahid Minar'. |
| 1/16/1920 | Nani Palkhiwala, famous law expert, was born. |
| 8/25/1965 | Sanjeev Kumar Sharma, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1988-89), was born in Delhi. |
| 12/14/1994 | 10 IAF personnel of the first batch were reinducted and the last batch left on 20th Dec 94. Cpl Nasir was left as a lying casualty due to injuries sustained in the RPG explosion. |
| 10/3/1991 | Ganpatrao Tapase, former Governor of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, died. |
| 2/8/1967 | Indira Gandhi was hit in face by a stone while addressing crowd. |
| 4/30/1909 | Kirpal Prem Nath, educationist, was born at Moga (Punjab). |
| 12/31/1941 | Milkha Singh Govindsingh Amritsar, cricketer (brother of Kripal Singh, Indian batsman in 4 Tests), was born in Madras. |
| 1/25/1971 | Himachal Pradesh High Court was established at Shimla for Himachal Pradesh Territory. |
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