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Historical Event on 1/9/1993

An Indian Airlines TU-154 plane crash lands in Delhi, all the 165 on board escape; Civil Aviation Minister Scindia resigns; PM cancels Dhaka visit; SAARC summit put off.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/25/1880Syed Muhammad Zamin Ali, great educationist, poet, editor, professor, writer and founder-member of the Hindustani Academy, was born at Mustafabad village in the Rae Bareli district of U.P.
2/5/1919Sitaram Kesri, veteran Congress leader, was born.
5/11/1970A bill for setting up of ""North Eastern Council"" passed.
3/5/1989Bhagwat Jha Azad, Bihar CM, resigns.
9/11/1893Swami Vivekananda represented Hinduism at Chicago's Parliament of the World's Religions, the first ever inter-faith gathering, dramatically enlightening Western opinion to the depth of Hindu philosophy and culture. He spoke for the first time in Chicago.
2/20/1997RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks.
6/16/1946Britain invites Indian leaders to set up an interim govt at London.
8/1/1988Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1991.
9/26/1999Atal Behari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, dispatched a team of experts to Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to assess the water storage position.
6/30/1914Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest during campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa.