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Historical Event on 1/30/1971

Indian Airline's Fokker Friendship aircraft in India was hijacked to Lahore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/1/1999Ace athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar is awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna; coaches Bahadur Singh, Hargobind Singh (athletics) and Gurbax Singh Sandhu (boxing) the Dronacharya awards during the Arjuna awards function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi.
8/20/1998The Punjab and Haryana High Court upholds the conviction of former Punjab DGP K.P.S. Gill for outraging the modesty of an IAS officer Mrs. Rupan Deol Bajaj.
4/4/1990Hindi film 'Bagh Bahadur' received the best feature film award of 1989.
6/26/1888Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Pilani.
1/18/1983Indi Singh, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Vancouver, Canada.
8/25/1997Cabinet approved the draft of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) which was to replace the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA).
8/15/1995P.V Narasimha Rao introduces the mid-day meal scheme for the primary school children under the Central Government Welfare Programme.
11/30/1986Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab.
10/26/1890Martyr Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was born at Allahabad. He was also the editor of revolutionary weekly 'Pratap'.
6/7/1998India emerges World Bank's single largest borrower with cumulative loans of 44 billion dollars.