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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
9/14/1997Fire and explosions devastate terminals and storage tanks at Visakh Refinery of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation. Toll put at 51.
10/21/1954Government of India and France sign an agreement for the de-facto transfer of the French settlement of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe to the Indian Union. The merger took place on November 1.
11/19/1991Two national commissions on women set up.
1/18/1930Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore) and Mahatma Gandhi met at Sabarmati Ashram.
3/23/199710 Dalits killed in Kab village of Bihar by Ranbir Sena, a pro-landlord extremist organisation.
9/12/1971Jaikishen, famous Hindi film music director, died.
9/24/1997E. S. Venkataramiah (72), former Chief Justice of India, died in Bangalore.
8/13/1951Acharya Kishoridas Vajpayee passed away.
11/1/1936Dr. Adarsh Sein Anand, justice, was born at Jammu (J & K State). He was the Chief Justice of India from 10/10/1998.
11/9/1909The Times reports failure of Gandhi Government negotiations on Transvaal laws.