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Historical Event on 12/24/1999
Indian Airlines Kathmandu-Delhi Airbus 300 with 186 people on board hijacked shortly after take-off.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/6/1906 | Kaveri Bhaskar Karve, teacher and author, was born at Harnai, Ratnagiri, . |
| 8/8/1905 | Dhyanchand, great Hockey player, was born. |
| 3/9/1897 | Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official). |
| 11/27/1994 | Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away. |
| 8/29/1976 | Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh. |
| 6/6/1994 | The 20-day old Limboo Ministry in Sikkim wins vote of confidence. |
| 5/21/1998 | India declares a moratorium on nuclear testing. |
| 5/21/1998 | Saint Kabir was born. |
| 10/20/1960 | Indian mountaineers reach the peak of Nanda Ghunti for the first time in the Kumaon Hills. |
| 4/26/1926 | Karachi Autonomous Region established in RSFSR (until 1943). |
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