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Historical Event on 3/31/1997

The Bombay Stock Exchange crashes by 300 points.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/25/1840Vinayak Konddev Oak, Marathi litteratewur, was born.
10/6/1985P.T. Usha sets record for 400m (Women) in 51.61 seconds at Canberra .
4/24/1929First non-stop flight from England to India takes-off.
7/14/1923Iqbal Singh Bhatia, great educationist, was born at Kotla Qasim Khan, (Pakistan).
7/19/1969Indian Government nationalised 14 major commercial banks of India by Presidental ordinance.
10/1/1991India takes over the presidency of Security Council with Ambassador G.R. Gharekhan in the chair.
12/10/1998Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
1/20/1897Gandhiji declines to prosecute assailants.
11/16/1997Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan offers to surrender.
12/25/1999An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops.