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Historical Event on 12/25/1999
An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/20/1969 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri was elected President and G. S. Pathak as Vice President of India. |
| 11/2/1999 | BJP suffers jolt in Bihar as it fails to win a single seat it contested in the October 28 poll to four Lok Sabha seats. |
| 11/2/1972 | B. D. Pande was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1977 |
| 1/17/1888 | Babu Gulab Rai, famous Hindi essy writer, critic and historian, was born. |
| 7/19/1974 | Udham Singh's, revolutionary, ashes brought to Delhi from London. |
| 8/14/1900 | S. K. Patil, Congress leader, was born. |
| 8/6/1992 | A 30-member JPC constituted to probe the security scam. |
| 7/4/1994 | Labhuben Mehta, famous Gujrathi author, died. |
| 5/5/1944 | Gandhi-Jinnah talks break down on Pakistan issue. |
| 4/4/1998 | G. Sarala Devi, 62, CPI leader and general secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women, passed away in Hyderabad. |
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