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Historical Event on 6/23/1985

Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/23/1983Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the seventh biennial Commonwealth Summit, meets in New Delhi.
8/19/1907Acharya Hajariprasad Dwivedi was born.
4/26/1952India says U.N. may disintegrate if powers block consideration of issues in small countries.
3/24/1981Bombay beat Delhi by an innings and 46 runs to win the Ranji Trophy.
5/27/1952United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party - National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as leader.
12/24/1997Congress(I) splits in Bihar with Dr. Jagannath Mishra and Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav floating iits regional outfit, ""Bihar Jan Congress
10/31/1989Dr. A. P. Mukherjee became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation till 11/01/90.
9/12/1912T. A. Ramachandran, cricket Test Umpire of one test during 1948-49, was born in Tamil Nadu.
1/17/1993LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast.
8/2/1942Gandhi says that the Japanese might be welcomed in India should they invade due to current Indian discontent.