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Historical Event on 12/25/1999
An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/15/1794 | Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
2/2/1930 | Vasudev Govind Apte, editor and dictrionay creator, passed away. |
11/16/1921 | Nearly 700 Mopalh rebels were killed by the Gurkhas as they attacked the Pandikkad post at Delhi. |
3/11/1824 | US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair. |
11/23/1926 | Satya Sai Baba, Hindu universalist renaissance charismatic guru, educationalist and worker of miracles, was born. |
11/22/1915 | Mohandas Gandhi returns to India. |
1/11/1999 | Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu. |
1/11/1991 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (1896-1995). |
5/5/1946 | Simla Conference in session from May 5 to May 12; Gandhiji's deliberations prove anfractuous. |
1/1/1920 | P.M. Nadagouda, politician, was born at Mysore, Chitwadgi. |
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