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Historical Event on 9/10/1976

An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/23/1929Ranjit Film Co. was founded by Chandulal Shah and Gohar at Bombay.
2/28/1937Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit.
1/1/1934Raju V. Vikram, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1984-87, was born at Karnataka.
3/24/1977Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister of India at New Delhi. Later he formed his cabinet. He was in the office of Prime Minister till July 28, 1979. This was first non-Congress Government in India.
8/7/1871Abanindranath Tagore, great modern artist and painter, was born at Jorasanko in Calcutta.
4/10/1931Balasaheb Vikhe Patil, who worked in the region of Sahkar and Education, was born.
1/9/1972In 1971, 433 feature films produced in the world with a record and a top position in film production.
8/29/1976Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh.
8/29/1947A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab.
10/2/1944Gandhiji was presented a purse of Rs 110 lakhs (£ 8,25,000) for Kasturba Memorial on his 75th birthday.