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Historical Event on 4/16/1997

Govt. orders foreign and domestic airlines to install air safety systems by the end of 1998. Aircraft with more than 30 seats that do not have Airborne Collision Avoidance System and transponders not to be allowed into Indian airpace from 1/1/99.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/8/1997Delhi High Court quashes charges of corruption and criminal conspiracy against L.K. Advani (BJP President), and former Union Minister V.C. Shukla in the Jain hawala case.
2/14/1959Nehru tells the International Conference on Planned Parenthood that Indian family planning efforts have not stopped population growth.
4/8/1998Sedapatti R. Muthiah resigns as the Union Surface Transport Minister at the behest of his party supremo Jayalalitha. He is involved in court cases.
2/8/1986For the first time in the country, pre-paid taxi sevice scheme was established at New Delhi airport.
3/18/1996President confers gallantry awards on 65 personnel of the defence forces.
8/18/1945Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose left Saigon and is believed to have died in a Japanese aeroplane crash at Taihoku Airport in Taiwan.
6/15/1986K. K. Tarapore, cricketer (Test for India 1948), was killed in a motor-scooter accident.
7/5/1981Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ¦(pie) from memory.
3/23/1967Pandey Bechain Sharma (Ugra) passed away.
1/12/1997Paes-Bhupathi win doubles title in the Singapore Open Challenger hardcourt tennis.