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Historical Event on 1/1/1978

Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/10/1922Gandhiji arrested for the first time in Bombay on the charges of sedition at Sabarmati.
6/17/1995Motilal Vohra, UP Governor, sets agenda for a two-day special session of the UP Assembly asking the speaker to take up a motion against self first.
6/23/1810Duncan Dock of Bombay was completed.
11/25/1992Mamata Banerjee, Union Minister of State for Sports, resigns to fight Bengal CPM.
1/21/1910Ramnath Anandilal Poddar, great industrialist, was born.
10/16/1942Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India.
12/8/1996Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest cricketer to make 3000 runs in test cricket (at the age of 23 yrs and 228 days.)
5/8/1996The governing Congress party is routed in Indian elections that have left no party with a clear mandate to govern.
1/10/1996Centre sets up Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission.
3/3/1983Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi.