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Historical Event on 3/8/1948
Air India International was established for overseas services.
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| 8/19/1903 | Gangadhar Devram Khanolkar, biographer and critic, was born. |
| 12/14/1998 | The Government introduces the controversial Women's Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha. |
| 4/15/1976 | India announces it will send an envoy to Peking, first time in 15 years. |
| 1/31/1997 | Merger of SCICI and ICICI confirmed with effect from 1/4/1996. |
| 9/4/1929 | N. Hanumantha Rao, cricket test umpire for 9 tests from 1978-84, was born in Karnataka. |
| 8/4/1931 | Narendra Shankar Tamhane, dependable Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1950's), was born in Bombay. |
| 12/25/1999 | An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops. |
| 3/5/1989 | Baba Prithvisingh, founder of Labour Party, passed away. |
| 12/25/1932 | King George V's chair collapsed during his Christmas dinner speech. |
| 11/6/1913 | Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader of Indian Passive Resistance Movement, was arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa by British troops. |
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