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Historical Event on 4/26/1993

Indian Airlines' IC 491 crashes at Aurangabad, killing 55 passengers.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/9/1984Captain H.J. Singh of Indian Army crossed the Banihal Darsh with the help of Hand Glider and set a new record.
6/19/1981APPLE, India's first experimental geo-stationary telecommunication satellite having experimental communication satellite, successfully launched by European Ariane, Kourou, French Guiana. This is the first to be stabilized on 3 axes.
3/22/1963World Bank loans India $ 67 mil. to improve its railways.
11/5/1892John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford.
6/11/1995PM leaves for 4-day official visit to France.
12/22/1866Mazharul Haque, great social reformer, nationalist, journalist, poet, writer and politician, was born at Bahpura, Bihar.
5/24/1990K. S. Hegde, former President of Parliament, passed away.
6/2/1997Saudi Boeing 747 Jumbo with 348 people on board misses the Meenambakkam international airport, Chennai and forcelands at Tambaram Air Force strip.
3/9/1897Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official).
1/29/1939Ramkrishna Mission Sanskritik Sansthan (Institute of Culture) was established.