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Historical Event on 6/8/1998
A Disaster Management Cell (DMC) under the direct command of the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, South Western Air Command, was set up at the Command Operations Room to liaise with the State Government and initiate necessary actions. All aircrafts were evacuated from IAF bases at Jamnagar, Bhuj and Naliya and flown to pre-determined destinations. In this meticulously planned and smoothly executed drill, more than 60 aircrafts (including helicopters) were flown out.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/24/1993 | IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar. |
| 10/15/1999 | Maharashtra Governor P. C. Alexander asks both the BJP-Shiv Sena combine and the Congress(I) for proof. |
| 10/10/1970 | Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri. |
| 5/25/1894 | Biharilal Chakravorty, bengali poet, passed away. |
| 7/26/1844 | Gooroodas Banerjee was born in Calcutta. He was a Judge of Calcutta High Court. |
| 1/1/1920 | Seth Darbari Shah, great industrialist, was born in Ikhlas. |
| 8/7/1991 | India successfully launches Prithvi-III, surface-to-air missile from Sriharikota. |
| 5/9/1992 | Killer brew claims 175 lives in Orissa, Excise Minister Prasanna Kumar Acharya resigns. |
| 10/1/1995 | Aditya Birla, famous industrialist, died. |
| 5/14/1994 | LTTE banned for the second time under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. |
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