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Historical Event on 1/9/1993

An Indian Airlines TU-154 plane crash lands in Delhi, all the 165 on board escape; Civil Aviation Minister Scindia resigns; PM cancels Dhaka visit; SAARC summit put off.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/7/1994Sunit Khatau, famous industrialist and textile magnet in Mumbai and owner of Khatau Group, was murdered. He was 55.
7/4/2000Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''.
11/23/1933Rajan Mehra, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1986-87, was born at Delhi.
11/6/1998Koneru Humpy wins the World under-12 girls' chess title in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. Azharuddin becomes the highest run-getter (displacing Desmond Haynes, 8648 runs) in LOI history in the Coca Cola cup, Sharjah.
11/22/1913Lakshmikant Jha, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir state and international famed ecomonist, was born.
4/8/1929Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw two bombs on the Assembly Hall.
7/20/1903British to increase size of Royal Army in India.
9/30/1999A B Vajpayee, Prime Minister, calls upon the people at an election campaign in Lucknow to give him a five-year term.
2/11/1997NHRC recommends to Central Government measures to prevent government servants from employing children below 14 as domestic servants.
2/6/1915Poet Pradeep (Ramchandra Divedi) was born at Bandnagar, MP.