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Historical Event on 2/4/1991

An abortive bid to hijack a Calcutta-Agartala flight by a 24-year old youth.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/16/1995Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS), India's first elevated suburban railway, becomes operational in Madras.
7/7/1937Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta.
3/16/1995World's best 7th wkt stand of 461 runs by Bhupinder Singh Jr. & P. Dharmani.
3/29/1970Union Government revises the percentage of reservation in service for SC\STs from 12.5\% to 15\%. Orders to be effective from 25 March.
9/28/1940Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away. He was also known as ""The Chhattisgarh Gandhi"".
5/23/1805Lord Wellesley, Governer General of India, issued a permanent provision for the Delhi Mughal Emperor.
5/25/1924Ashutosh Mukerjee, famous educationalist, passed away in Dumraon at Bihar .
6/26/1906M.P. Sivagnanam, famous Tamil writer and social worker, was born at Madras.
7/21/1977K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
7/31/1985Lalit Maken, Congress (I) M.P, his wife and a visitor at their residence in Delhi were shot down by terrorists.