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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
5/27/1930India's major cities are seething with unrest following the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of his followers in the campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. Civil unrest in Bombay, where at least six were killed and sixty injured.
8/16/1991Indian Airliner Boeing 737 crashes in Manipur's Churachandpur district killing all 69 aboard.
4/2/1993MP High Court quashes dismissal of BJP Government under article 356; the Centre decides to move the Supreme Court.
4/26/1895Guru Baksha Singh, modern Punjabi litterateur was born.
11/3/1996Deve Gowda, PM, to attend G-15 summit in Harare. This was his first foreign trip as PM.
1/5/1995India receives first consignment of Chinese Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) for the 2 US built Tarapur nuclear plant with the approval of IAEA.
4/15/1794Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away.
4/7/1998Soli Sorabjee is appointed Attorney-General of India.
1/24/1937Gandhi announces that he will retire from politics.
3/13/1800Nana Phadanvis (Balaji Janardan Bhanu), veteran leader of Peshwa Kingdom, died.