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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
5/2/1996General Election 2nd phase begins in 204 LS and 223 Assembly constituencies spread over 17 States & union territories.
6/14/1947Congress Working Committee met at New Delhi to draft the resolution to be placed before All India Congress Committee on the acceptance of Mountbatten plan for the partition of India.
2/26/1996Sahib Singh Verma sworn in as Delhi's second CM.
4/2/1980S. S. Grewal was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-04-1981.
7/3/1997Tamil actor Sivaji Ganesan gets 1996 Dada Saheb Phalke award for outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.
1/6/1953Stalin Peace Prize awarded to Dr. S. Kitchlew.
4/8/1950Nehru and Ali Khan sign the Indo-Pakistani Pact.
4/6/1930Mahatma Gandhi picked up a lump of natural salt for breaking the 'Salt Law'. He was arrested at Dandi. This movement gathered strength and within a month about one lakh people were sent to jail. This violation of Salt Law was the second great step in India's Freedom Movement.
8/16/1922Raunaq Singh, great industrialist and philanthropist, was born at Daska.
2/16/1942The third IAF unit to operate the Lysander was No.4 Squadron, formed with four aircraft on 16 February 1942. This squadron was to continue to operate the Westland aircraft until it too was re-equipped with the Hurricane in June 1943.