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Historical Event on 9/18/1990

Devkumar, famous Hindi film actor, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/13/1918Foundation stone was liad of Sir Kawasjee Jahangir Public Hall in Mumbai.
7/11/1973India frees 438 Pakistani prisoners on medical grounds.
9/13/1990An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka.
9/5/1904Bhalchandra Pandharinath Bahirat, editor and expert of Saint literature, was born.
2/13/1994Yashwant Narsingh Kelkar, senior historian and journalist in Maharashtra, passed away.
3/12/1942British troops vacate the Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.
3/21/1993The 68 km Mangalore-Udupi stretch of the west coast Konkan rail line opened by the PM.
3/14/1997Veerendra Patil, 73, twice former Chief Minister of Karnataka, passed away.
4/1/1933Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron.
3/28/1996JKLF declared unlawful by central govt.