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Historical Event on 8/26/1984

An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/29/1954India accepted Tibet as a part of China.
6/7/2000Telecom Commission approves the free phone bonanza for all telecom employees announced by the Union Communications Minister Ram Vilas Paswan.
10/31/1999Efforts to restore rail and telecom links on a war footing.
9/25/1990S. S. Chauhan, one of the students who had suffered severe burns while trying to immolate himself in protest against implementation of Mandal Commission Report, died.
7/22/199824-year old P T Usha won bronze medals in the 400m and 200m races and anchored the 4x100m relay team to gold and 4x400m for silver at the Asian Track and Field Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
7/17/1974J.P. Narain leads an agitation for dissolution of the Bihar Assembly.
1/22/1922Shanta Buddhisagar, famous Marathi writer, was born.
5/30/1999India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions.
3/10/1995ONGC's oil rig that blew out ( January 8 ) at Pasalapudi site near Amalapuram (Andhra Pradesh) put out after 62 days.
4/13/1999D. Sripada Rao, former Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, is shot dead by People's War Group naxalites near Annaram village in Karimnagar district.