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Historical Event on 8/29/1984

Indian Airlines Boeing 737 with 68 passengers and a crew of 6 hijacked in Lahore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/15/1997Lok Sabha passes Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 1997.
3/17/1782Salby Teaty was singed between Anderson (British) and Scindia for the Maratha and East India Company.
10/16/1942Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India.
12/17/1929Bhagat Singh and Rajguru killed Sanders, Asst. Suprintendent of Police.
11/28/1990Union Cabinet approves re-induction of Airbus A-320 in the domestic sector.
1/19/1932Balgovind Jaiswal, educationist and author, was born at Mhow.
7/21/1947Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three.
1/18/1906Nirupam Chandra Ganguli, criminal lawyer and sportsman, was born at Bhagalpur.
9/29/1755Robert Lord Clive founded the British empire in India
3/11/1824US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair.