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Historical Event on 12/24/1999
Indian Airlines Kathmandu-Delhi Airbus 300 with 186 people on board hijacked shortly after take-off.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/23/1856 | Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, scholar, mathematician, philosopher, militant nationalist Indian leader and who helped lay the foundation for India's independence, was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. |
10/1/1854 | Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26. |
6/8/1998 | Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian President, died in Abuja of heart attack. |
11/24/1924 | Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman, famous political cartoonist, was born. |
11/7/1998 | The Kalidas Samman awards, instituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government, are presented to Tapas Sen, Akbar Padamsee, Shriram Lagoo, Pandit Jasraj and Kalyani Kutti Amma. |
4/13/1890 | Ramchandra Gopal Torne (Dadasaheb), film director, was born. |
2/1/1931 | Gandhi chiefs order campaign of civil disobedience to continue. |
12/7/2000 | A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam. |
2/23/1876 | Saint Gadgebaba, great modern saint of Maharashtra, was born. |
1/18/1906 | Nirupam Chandra Ganguli, criminal lawyer and sportsman, was born at Bhagalpur. |
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