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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 |
| 1/21/1970 | Harivinayak Pataskar, former Central Minister and Governor of Madhya Pradesh, passed away. |
| 7/22/1702 | The ""English Company of Merchants"" and the old East India Company was named the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies"". In1833, this name finally changed to East India Company. |
| 7/22/1997 | Bus plummets into the swollen Usri river in Giridih dist, Bihar, killing 70. |
| 2/10/1946 | Gandhiji revives 'Harijan' and allied group of weekly journals. |
| 11/5/1956 | University Grants Commission Act sets up UGC. |
| 6/2/1990 | Union Government set up a tribunal to settle the Cauvery water issue between Tamil Nadu & Karnataka. |
| 4/1/1947 | Gandhiji addresses Asian Relations Conference in Delhi. |
| 6/29/1909 | Pandit Motilal, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born. |
| 11/6/1910 | Satakopan Chandilyan Bhashyam, journalist, was born at Tirukkoilur, Madras. |
| 10/20/1989 | Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over West Indies and India. |
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