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Historical Event on 6/23/1984
An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/27/1845 | Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and first nobel prize winner, was born at Lennep, Germany. |
| 2/14/2000 | The Supreme Court stays the Karnataka High Court judgment quashing the State Government's Ashraya scheme for providing plots to the poor. |
| 4/20/1938 | Bhartacharya Chintamanrao Vinayak Vaidya, omnicient research scientist and expert of Marathi and English languages, passed away. |
| 3/10/1998 | A. B. Vajpayee agrees to form a government with 252 members including the BJP and it's allies. |
| 3/27/1991 | Chautala recommends Assembly dissolution. |
| 8/1/1846 | Dwarkanath Tagore, a Hindu philanthropist, died in London. |
| 8/30/1928 | Jawaharlal Nehru lays his plans for a free India and becomes president of Congress Party in 1929. |
| 10/28/1998 | The 1998 Swarna Jayanti Fellowship Award is presented to 11 young scientists. |
| 10/28/1998 | The Sultan, losing his hold over the army and some members of his aristocracy, very wisely abdicated in favour of his brother Ahmad, who is famous in Deccan history as Ahmad Shah Wali. |
| 1/9/1972 | In 1971, 433 feature films produced in the world with a record and a top position in film production. |
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