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Historical Event on 12/24/1999

Indian Airlines Kathmandu-Delhi Airbus 300 with 186 people on board hijacked shortly after take-off.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/23/19905-member Ministry headed by R. K. Ranbir Singh in Manipur elected.
12/6/1952First Indo-Soviet Trade agreement signed.
2/23/1997Justice J. S. Verma appointed Chief Justice of India.
5/10/1993Santosh Yadav becomes the first Indian woman to reach the Everest for the second time.
2/20/1987Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh becomes the 23rd and 24th states of Indian Union.
3/20/1994Pakistan closes down its consulate in Bombay.
10/21/1916Dinkarrai Dhirajlal Desai, cricket Test Umpire for 3 tests from 1955-57, was born in Gujarat.
3/12/1992A devastating wave of car-bomb explosions killed an estimated 300 people and injured hundreds more today in the large western Indian port city of Bombay. The first blast ripped through the city's stock exchange building, and minutes later a dozen slightly less powerful explosions rocked the bustling city center.The bomb attacks appeared to have been part of a carefully planned operation.The devices were clearly meant to cause maximum loss of life and damage to property.
9/3/1987Vishwanathan Anand, 17, becomes India's first and the world's youngest Grandmaster.
11/28/1962K. C. Dey, well-known famous blind singer of Bengal, died.