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Historical Event on 7/7/1962
94 people died in an Italian DC-8 air crash near Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/31/1929 | At the Lahore session, under the Presidentship of Jawaharlal Nehru, the Congress adopted a resolution of 'Poorna Swaraj' (Complete Independence), the slogan given by Gandhiji. The tricolour flag of freedom was unfurled and 26th January 1930 was decided to be celebrated as Independence day every year. This session led to Civil Disobedience Movement, Dandi March to break the Salt Law, etc. |
| 1/31/2000 | All seven accused in the Jain hawala case discharged. |
| 8/19/1993 | Y. D. Lokurkar, senior journalist, died. |
| 4/26/1929 | British fliers make a record nonstop 4,130-mile trip from London to India. |
| 3/25/1983 | Chalpati Rao, great journalist, passed away. |
| 3/27/1997 | Punjab men and Railway women win National volleyball league in Tiruppur. |
| 10/6/1963 | Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter and grand old man of Punjab, died. |
| 7/4/1897 | Alluri Seetaram Raju, freedom fighter, was born in a Kshatriya clan in Andhra Pradesh. He is rememberred as one of the great sons of India in the annals of Indian history who fought valiantly for his motherland in the early period of the freedom movement. |
| 1/7/1883 | Martyer Sohanlal Pathak was born. |
| 7/4/2000 | Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''. |
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