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Historical Event on 6/5/1984

Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/19/1954Nehru and Mao meet in Peking.
5/17/1775Marathas were badly mauled in the battle of Arras by Col. Keating in the first Anglo - Maratha war.
8/28/1998India and Pakistan clash at the Security Council after New Delhi denounced the running of terrorist training camps in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Afghanistan.
6/26/1954Nehru, Chou En-lai pledge good-neighbor policy at New Delhi.
2/16/1993Dr. U.R. Ananta Murthy elected President of the Kendra Sahitya Academy.
6/29/1909Pandit Motilal, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born.
8/29/1984Indian Airlines Boeing 737 with 68 passengers and a crew of 6 hijacked in Lahore.
11/30/1989Congress (I) emerges largest party in Lok Sabha by winning 193 seats, Congress (I) rule in Karnataka and Veerendra Patil made the Chief Minister.
11/16/1958India and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement to exchange Soviet industrial and agricultural equipment for farm commodities at Moscow.
10/28/2000The Royal Canadian Mounted police arrest two Sikhs, Ripudaman Singh Malik (53) and Ajaib Singh Bagri (51), in Vancouver in connection with the downing of Air India Boeing 747 en route from Canada to London in 1985.