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Historical Event on 8/29/1984

Indian Airlines Boeing 737 with 68 passengers and a crew of 6 hijacked in Lahore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/17/1932V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born.
2/8/1985P. K. Kaul was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 22-08-1986.
3/31/1998T. N. Mishra became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 04/01/99).
8/6/1992A 30-member JPC constituted to probe the security scam.
3/19/1907Dr. Dilawar Hussain, right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, was born.
4/5/1991Kerala Assembly dissolved paving way for elections.
10/22/1937Gandhiji presided over the educational conference at Wardha and outlined his scheme of education through basic crafts.
3/17/1988First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space.
1/12/1757Captain Eyre Coote from the Portuguese was captured in Bandel.
1/26/1876Railway route started between Mumbai and Calcutta.