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Historical Event on 3/8/1998

Indian Airlines operates two international flights with all women crew.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/10/1921Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and nobel prize winner, passed away.
12/12/1930Babu Genu sacrificed his life to stage the boycott of foreign goods.
4/8/1923Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week.
6/6/1891Vanktesh Iyengar Masti, famous Kannad poet, story writer, novelist, playwright and critic, was born.
3/17/1882Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern Marathi language, passed away.
9/6/1905Satyacharan Chaterjee, great Indian Geologist, was born.
9/25/2000A Delhi Court dismisses applications of three of the 17 accused seeking dropping of proceedings against them in the sensational Coomar Narain espionage case which hit the headlines and rattled the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985.
9/19/1936Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, expert in north Indian classical music, died. He was also a lawyer, professor and social reformer.
4/29/2000The Army institutes a high-level court of inquiry under Maj. Gen. C.B. Suku to look into the causes of the arms depot conflagration.
3/8/1941Sir Jorge Abraham Gearson, philologist and archealogist, passed away.