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Historical Event on 1/3/2000

A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, accuses Pakistan for the hijack of an Indian Airlines aircraft. (The crisis ended on Dec. 31 last with the Vajpayee Government agreeing to free three terrorists in exchange for the passengers).

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/17/1974Ustad Gulam Sabir, famous Sarangi player, died at Kanpur.
4/15/1947Issues with Jinnah a joint appeal for communal peace.
3/8/1986L.K. Advani elected President of BJP.
2/1/1889Judge Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.
3/16/1928C.V. Raman announced his discovery of ''new radiation'' to an assembly of scientists at Bangalore.
4/11/1992Marathi cinema's Bhaichandra Govind Pendharkar gets Phalke Award.
9/21/1997Mahesh Bhupathi wins a cliff-hanger as India clinches Davis Cup World Group play-off tie against Chile 3-2 in Delhi.
7/18/1695Joannes Camphuys, Governal General of Dutch-Indies, died at the age of 61.
5/29/1957Satish Kumar Sareen graduated from the first batch of the JSW and went onto the AFFC for flying training.
9/7/1998Prof. K. M. Chandy, Congress (I) leader and former Governor of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, died in Kochi at the age of 77.