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Historical Event on 8/29/1984
Indian Airlines Boeing 737 with 68 passengers and a crew of 6 hijacked in Lahore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/13/1951 | Acharya Kishoridas Vajpayee passed away. |
| 11/15/1995 | Qiao Shi, Chairman of the standing committee of the Chinese National Peoples' Congress, arrives in New Delhi to advance Sino-Indian relations. |
| 8/20/1986 | A restructured 20-point programme announced. |
| 12/11/1992 | UP acquistion of land in Ayodhya quashed by Allahabad High Court. |
| 2/10/1806 | Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Kainakary , Kerala. |
| 1/5/1893 | Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions. |
| 5/24/1956 | Gautam Buddha's 2500th birth anniversary was celebrated. |
| 8/5/1909 | Dwijhans Kalika Prasad Dixit, great poet and educationist, was born at Gram Dedani in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 9/13/1965 | Pakistanis bomb Bombay. |
| 8/8/1946 | India agrees to give Bhutan 32 miles. |
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