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Historical Event on 3/7/1999

22 persons are killed and six injured when an AN-32 transport aircraft of the IAF crashes at Pappankulam near Indira Gandhi International Airport in south-west Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/11/1913Waman Ganesh Talwalkar, Marathi journalist and story writer, was born.
10/18/1861Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya, historian and researcher, was born.
4/5/1930Mahatma Gandhi reached Dandi, a small costal village in Gujarat, after travelling 385 kms with 78 followers to break the recently imposed ""Salt Law"". This event is known as 'Dandi March' and was started from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad.
5/22/1993Karnataka special task force guns down Veerappan's brother and righthand man Arjunan.
7/4/1729Kanhoji Angre, former Chief of Navy in Maratha kingdom, died.
10/13/1991PM Rao leaves for Harare to attend the Commonwealth heads of government meeting.
9/15/1926Vande Mataram', a lengthy feature film produced by Vande Mataram Film Co, Bombay, was prohibited on September 15 by the Censor Board on the grounds that it was an underlying attack on the prestige of University Education in India. The film, however, was cleared on December 7 after deleting the objectionable scenes.
10/15/1987Times Eye Research Foundation was established in Amritsar, India.
10/15/1987Sher Shah defeated Humayun for the second time at Hardoi in U.P. in the battle of Kanauj.
1/26/1997Mizoram becomes a dry state, the fourth, after Gujarat, AP and Haryana.