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Historical Event on 4/16/1997

Govt. orders foreign and domestic airlines to install air safety systems by the end of 1998. Aircraft with more than 30 seats that do not have Airborne Collision Avoidance System and transponders not to be allowed into Indian airpace from 1/1/99.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/22/1993The first batch of IAF troops landed in the capital city of Mogadishu.
9/21/1996Rao resigns Congress Party President post.
4/11/1999Chetan Baboor and Poulomi Ghatak won the men's and women's titles resp. in the India Cup table tennis in Mumbai.
11/27/1998India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final.
5/25/1997In a bid to break the deadlock on naming transport corporation after caste leaders in southern districts, Tamil Nadu Government agrees to create a new bus corporation named after Pulithevan.
12/9/1999Several MPs in the Lok Sabha demand resignation of the CBI chief in the Priyadarshini Matto murder case.
1/31/1998D. R. Karthikeyan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/03/98).
1/10/1897Wildemar Modecai Haffkine, famous scientist, innoculated himself with vaccine against Plague publicly to demonstrate the harmlessness of the product in Bombay. The method of preparation of this vaccine has remained the same till now for more then hundred years.
4/16/1991President's rule imposed in Haryana.
2/16/1955Maghnath Saha, famous scientist, passed away.