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Historical Event on 7/5/1984
Indian Airlines airbus hijacked, lands in Lahore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/2/1970 | Smt. Chonira Beliappa Muthamma, India's first woman ambassador, was deputed at Hungary. |
| 1/18/1938 | The last batch of the political prisioners sailed back to the mainland from the Cellular Jail. |
| 11/29/1991 | Test Cricket debut of Javagal Srinath vs Australia at Gabba. |
| 12/19/1994 | K. A. P. Vishwanathan, famous Tamil author, passed away. |
| 9/24/1936 | It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity. |
| 11/17/1948 | Despite the scepticism on the part of the US and British advisers concerning the feasibility of the scheme, the first half-dozen HAL-reconditioned B-24s were ready by November 1948 and, on the 17th of that month, No. 5 Squadron was formed with these heavy bombers. |
| 5/17/1949 | India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 1/15/1887 | Shri Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chowdary, freedom fighter and a great native poet, was born in village Angaluru, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 3/14/1995 | Keshubai Patel (Gujarat), J.B. Patnaik (Orissa) and Manohar Joshi, the 12th (Maharashtra) CMs, elected. |
| 6/14/1987 | Rajiv Gandhi, PM, rules out termination of Rs. 1700 crore Bofors gun deal. |
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