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Historical Event on 9/1/1998

Tatas withdraw their Rs. 1,475-crore proposal to operate an airline with foreign equity participation in the domestic sector.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/6/1933Kripal Singh Govindsingh, Amritsar, India, 100* on debut v NZ 1959, was born at Madras.
7/1/1997Prime Minister inaugurated India's first Science City in Calcutta.
10/3/1997Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas.
12/11/1999Gopalakrishna Gandhi, former High Commissioner to South Africa, is conferred the honorary doctorate by the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa.
8/3/1998India's most sophisticated medium range surface-to-air missile ''Akash'' was test-fired from the interim test range at Chandipur-on-sea.
8/4/1914Gandhiji reaches London and raised Indian Volunteer Corps.
10/24/1995A total eclipse of the sun witnessed from India to Vietnam.
3/19/1982President's rule in Assam.
6/9/1991Raj Khosla, famous film producer and director, passed away.
12/31/1999This Indian Railway, carries more than 11 million passengers in a day, runs on more than 62,000 route kilometers and more than 1,07,000 track kilometers daily. This is the largest Railway System under Single Management.