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Historical Event on 12/24/1999

Indian Airlines Kathmandu-Delhi Airbus 300 with 186 people on board hijacked shortly after take-off.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/3/1993Bill to regulate cable TV introduced in Rajya Sabha.
8/29/1997B.M. Sumavathi creats national record in heptathlon in the Federation Cup athletics.
3/10/1993The 12-day-old caretaker ministry in Tripura led by Samir Ranjan Burman resigns.
11/5/1994Russi Modi appointed Chairman of Air India and Indian Airlines.
3/22/199957 prisoners in Indian and Pakistan jails are repatriated to their respective motherlands at the Attari-Wagah joint checkpost on the border in Amristar district.
12/8/1994At 1730 hrs, a rocket propelled grenade fired by Somalia militia during inter clan fighting exploded on the roof of the barrack which housed IAF officers. In the explosion, two officers and an airman were injured.
4/17/1977Swatantra Party was merged in Janata Party.
1/6/1987An International Conference to commemorate the 75 anniversary of the African National Congress opens in New Delhi.
10/26/1930Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay.
8/15/1994Sukumar Gupta, a socialist, dies.