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Historical Event on 7/7/1962

94 people died in an Italian DC-8 air crash near Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/19/1875The first section from Hathras Road to Mathura Cantonment was opened to traffic.
4/30/1909R. Shankar, politician, journalist and former Chief Minister of Kerala, was born.
7/23/1990Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Indian Prime Minister and Gorbachev sign joint declaration committing their countries to building a nuclear-free and non-violent world in the first Indian-Soviet summit in the post-Gorbachev Soviet Union in Moscow.
1/10/1897Wildemar Modecai Haffkine, famous scientist, innoculated himself with vaccine against Plague publicly to demonstrate the harmlessness of the product in Bombay. The method of preparation of this vaccine has remained the same till now for more then hundred years.
3/22/1969The first public sector petrochemical organisation was inaugurated.
3/1/1917J. F. Maden gave a preview of the first Bengali fiction film ""Satyawadi Raja Harischandra"".
1/30/1968Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer and President of All India, passed away.
10/4/1997Two top executives of Turkish firm 'Karsan', accused in Rs. 133 crore urea import scam case, were remanded to police custody.
1/19/1697Maharana Pratap, the founder of Mewad and eminent personality, passed away.
9/1/1909Father Kamil Bulke was born. He produced a handy English to Hindi dictionary. He did his Ph.D. on 'Ramcharita Manas' and was Head of Hindi Department in Patna University.