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Historical Event on 1/30/1971

Indian Airline's Fokker Friendship aircraft in India was hijacked to Lahore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/19/2000The Government creates an electronic database of all the principal Central Acts from 1834 to 1996 of all India application.
4/13/1948Bhuvaneshwar became the capital of Orissa.
5/26/1916Rangnath Manohar Joshi (Nirmal Guruji), Marathi author, was born.
5/24/1991The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused.
4/18/1612Marriage of Shahjahan and Mumtaj Mahal.
7/22/1956Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing.
3/29/1998The new govt. wins the vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha.
2/24/199525 jawans die in an explosion in Brahmaputra Mail near Nilalong station about 200 km from Guwahati.
3/12/1991Lok Sabha Speaker Rabi Ray admits to an Opposition-sponsored motion for removal of the Supreme Court Judge V. Ramaswamy for alleged misappropriation of public funds, and sets up a three-Judge committee to investigate.
3/1/1962Gaya University renamed as Magadh University.