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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
6/18/1979Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset.
7/31/1658Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor.
4/24/199824 persons are killed and 28 injured when some bogies of a goods train break free and roll back to collide with the stationary Manmad-Kacheguda Express at Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra.
1/31/1996Asia's first Sports University inaugurated in Pune.
11/1/1967Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory.
7/12/1949Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die.
5/22/1993Congress (I) suffers reverses in the by-elections.
9/12/1965Army fights back heavy Indian tank attacks at Pakistan.
2/26/1857First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry.
8/17/1996CBI seizes another Rs. 65 lakhs from Sukh Ram's residence.