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Historical Event on 8/4/1979
Indian Airlines AVRO-748 crashes in to a hill near Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/17/1994 | North Eastern Council decides to include Sikkim in the Council. |
| 4/7/1934 | Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience in India. |
| 11/27/1994 | Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away. |
| 7/20/1916 | Habibur Rehman Ebrahim Chowdhary, cricket Test Umpire for 4 tests from 1959-64, was born at Mumbai. |
| 10/24/1955 | Ghulam Ahmad Hasan Muhammad Parkar, cricketer (Indian batsman vs England 1982), was born in Kalusta, Maharashtra. |
| 12/17/1998 | Jyotirmoyee bags her second gold at the Asian Games, winning the women's 800m. Rosakutty finishes second. Bantamweight pugilist Dingko Singh clinches a gold while Indian pair of Sethi-Shandilya strikes top prize in billiards doubles category. |
| 1/5/1957 | Adintrim Sales Tax Act was introduced and the Central Sales Tax Act of 1956 came into force. |
| 5/15/1992 | Harshad Mehta suspended. |
| 5/27/1910 | Robert Koch, famous French scientist, passed away. |
| 9/9/1997 | Pravin Thipsay becomes India's third chess Grand Master. |
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