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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 |
3/31/1867 | Prarthana Samaj was established by Ranade, Bhandarkar and others at Mumbai in 1864. |
8/6/1989 | Six top Cricket stars banned for one year from all cricket activities on the issue of American tour. |
8/18/1985 | Assam Assembly dissolved (18). |
12/11/1931 | Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ""Osho"", guru of the rich, was born. |
3/9/1858 | Bahadurshah Jafar II, the last Mughal Emperor, was deported to Rangoon under the offence for rising of first Indian Mutiny in 1857. |
1/11/1986 | Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K. |
7/6/1930 | Balmurlikrishna, famous singer, was born. |
4/8/1887 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born. |
8/8/1966 | India endorses the Partial Nuclear Ban Treaty. |
10/12/1946 | Ashok Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (son of Vinoo, batted for India 1969-78), was born in Bombay. |
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