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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 |
| 7/29/1904 | Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata, president of Tata industrial group, was born in Paris, France. He was the first pilot of India to be conferred with the Bharat Ratna. |
| 3/13/1978 | Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (3 wkts in 2 Tests for India), passed away. |
| 6/5/1994 | India test-fires a missile capable of reaching targets in China. |
| 8/13/1995 | Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar. |
| 10/27/1998 | L. P. Singh, ICS, former Governor of five north eastern states, died in New Delhi. He was 86. |
| 12/19/1919 | Sunil Kumar Banerjee, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1963-64, was born at Bengal. |
| 8/1/1927 | Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, famous Hindi litterateur, was born. |
| 4/8/1857 | Mangal Pandey, the first revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, was hanged till death at Barrackpore. He struck the first bullet during the time of mutiny against the British Empire. |
| 9/24/1947 | Pakistani raiders invade Kashmir. |
| 4/15/1942 | George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta. |
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