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Historical Event on 1/3/2000
A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, accuses Pakistan for the hijack of an Indian Airlines aircraft. (The crisis ended on Dec. 31 last with the Vajpayee Government agreeing to free three terrorists in exchange for the passengers).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/21/1977 | K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
| 2/9/1991 | India holds the last decennial census of the century. |
| 8/17/1848 | Romesh Chunder Dutt, great political leader, writer and social worker, was born. |
| 4/29/1639 | Delhi's Red fort construction commenced by laying the Foundation Stone by Shah Jahan. This fort was completed on May 13, 1646. |
| 2/9/1992 | Pakistan bans JKLF march. |
| 6/15/1949 | Uloor S. Parmeswara Iyer, famous poet, writer, editor and literature, died. He was 72. |
| 12/10/1870 | Jadhunath Sarkar, history researcher, was born. |
| 9/20/1999 | Shobha Subrahmanyam, managing director of the Ananda Bazaar Patrika Group of publications, was elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society for 1999-2000. |
| 5/1/1897 | Vivekananda Swami established Ramakrishna Mission. |
| 1/21/1997 | First group of bank documents relating to Bofors case handed over to Indian Government. |
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