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Historical Event on 3/8/1998

Indian Airlines operates two international flights with all women crew.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/11/1882Baba Kanshi Ram, great freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Dada Siba village, Tehsil Dehra District, Kangra.
1/27/199455 miners, trapped inside New Kenda Colliery of Eastern Coal Fields, die.
12/13/1994Vishwanath Annappa Tatyasaheb Kore, Padmashri awardee, passed away.
7/8/1954Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, inaugurated world's longest Bhakra-Nangal Dam canal at Punjab.
5/13/1956Acharya Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan campaign in Tiruvellore.
5/12/1966Sardar Sikandar Hayat, President of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, resigns.
5/27/1998Minoo Masani, 92, co-founder of the Swatantra Party, passed away in Mumbai after a brief illness.
6/25/1975President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day.
3/1/1908Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India.
6/26/1954Nehru, Chou En-lai pledge good-neighbor policy at New Delhi.