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Historical Event on 11/10/1990

Two Burmese youth hijack a Thai Airlines Airbus with 221 passengers on board to Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/20/1994Indian ship rescues over 2000 Indian nationals trapped in the embattled Yemen's port city of Aden.
10/16/1942Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India.
6/4/1955Ministry of Iron & Steel inaugurated.
7/15/1969Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh, Padma Vibhushan, DFC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. After retirement he was appointed as the Ambassador in Switzerland.
5/1/1964Ravishankar University was established at Raipur in Madhya Pradesh.
1/18/1942Gandhiji restarts 'Harijan' and allied weeklies.
6/23/1985Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died.
7/5/1992Bahadur Prasad at London sets record for 3000m in 7.56.74.
11/5/1995Common Guidance test flight of Trishul successful.
9/27/1908Shiv Verma, great soldier, was born.