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Historical Event on 1/22/1993

A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/1/1963Soviets offer India arms to block China.
11/20/1998V. K. Sharma, chairman and managing director of JVG Group of Companies, who allegedly swindled Rs. 600 crores from investors, is arrested in Mumbai.
10/16/1978Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs Pakistan, at Faisalabad.
1/24/1995Congress (I) suspends Arjun Singh from the party.
4/8/1973India takes control over Sikkim after anti-government riots.
1/1/1989This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of the Young Reader"".
6/19/1991Sudhakar Rao Naik (Cong-I) sworn in as the Maharashtra CM.
3/29/1849Maharaj Dulip Singh left the throne of Punjab that once belonged to his late father Ranjit Singh and was then occupied by the East India Company. The Britishers had captured it after defeating the Sikh Army at Amritsar.
8/19/1927Ananta Narsinha Naik, social reformer and politician, was born at Bandora, Goa.
11/23/1937Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, eminent scientist, passed away due to heart attack. In 1901, he proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"". He founded Bose Research Institute in Calcutta and authored world famous books ""Response in Living and Non-Living""(1902) and ""Nervous Merchanism of Pl