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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 |
| 10/1/1894 | Sudhi Ranjan Das, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born in Calcutta. |
| 6/18/1988 | V.P.Singh defeats Congress rival Sunil Shastri in Allahabad Lok Sabha election. |
| 3/19/1939 | Abbas Ali Baig, cricketer (Indian bat 112 on debut v England 1959), was born in Hyderabad. |
| 3/1/1917 | Kartar Singh Duggal, famous author, was born at Dhamyal, Pakistan. |
| 8/14/1993 | New governors for MP, Bihar, West Bengal & Tripura. |
| 3/2/1997 | Bangalore's Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar develops India's first indigenously made HIV detection kit. |
| 6/12/1990 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1D) launched. This is an operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was launched by US Delta launch vehicle, Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. |
| 7/31/1933 | Gandhiji was arrested from Sabarmati Ashram and imprisoned without trial. |
| 4/21/1975 | Farakka Barrage dedicated to nation. |
| 10/24/1966 | Yugoslavia, UAR call on the US at New Delhi to stop bombing of North Vietnam. |
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