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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 |
| 8/6/1932 | Ramsay McDonald came out with his 'Communal Award' to fix seats for the various communities in the provincial legislatures. |
| 5/29/1953 | Ranji Nanan, cricketer (Trinidad off-spinner, 1 Test v Pakistan 1981), was born. |
| 5/12/1992 | Ms. Santosh Yadav (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) becomes the second Indian woman to set foot atop Mt. Everest. |
| 1/26/1992 | Bharat Bhushan, the legendary romantic film hero of the 1950's, passed away at the age of 71 years. |
| 7/19/1998 | The INSAT-2C satellite suffers ``disorientation'' - loss of earth lock - briefly. |
| 5/18/1988 | The ten-day Golden Temple siege at Amritsar ends with the surrender of 46 militant Sikhs. |
| 11/7/1936 | Chandrakant Devtale, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 5/27/1999 | Sharad Pawar, Tariq Anwar and P.A. Sangma launch the Nationalist Congress Party. |
| 5/14/1907 | Muhammad Ayub Khan, Pakistani president, was born. |
| 4/1/1995 | The Airports Authority of India (AAI) formed by the merger of IAAI and NAA. AAI manages five international airports, 87 domestic airports and 28 civil enclaves. |
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