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Historical Event on 8/26/1984
An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/2/1979 | Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (vs West Indies). |
| 3/28/1994 | G-15 summit opens with only six heads of Government in New Delhi. |
| 7/7/1999 | M.L. Jaisimha, former Indian Test cricketer, died in Hyderabad. |
| 1/22/1990 | FIR registered in Bofors kickbacks case. |
| 2/26/1937 | Manmohan Desai, film producer and director, was born. |
| 2/6/1994 | Ram Mahadik, Congress leader, passed away. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 11/3/1986 | Dr. Indrachandra Shastri, versatile in Sanskrit and Pali, died. |
| 2/7/1992 | Shalki', the first submarine designed in India, joined Indian Navy. |
| 9/5/1612 | East India Company's Navy eastablished. |
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