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Historical Event on 8/4/1979
Indian Airlines AVRO-748 crashes in to a hill near Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/8/1790 | Lord Edward Alanbaro, Governor General of India (1842 to 1844), was born. |
| 6/22/1959 | Iyengar Kasturi Srinivas, great politician and journalist, passed away. |
| 1/22/1945 | The Indian 7th Division captures Tilin at Burma. |
| 1/21/1961 | Queen of Britain, Elizabeth II, and her husband Duke of Edinburgh visited New Delhi. |
| 9/8/1991 | Hostage ONGC engineer T.S. Raju and mediator Bipul Mahanta, an Amnesty International member, killed by ULFA in Assam. |
| 9/24/1861 | Madame Bhikaji Rustom Cama, mother of the Indian Revolution, was born in Bombay. From an early age she took interest in social and political work. |
| 8/14/1968 | Week-long flood death toll reaches 1,000. |
| 8/25/1999 | Former Indian Davis Cup captain Narendra Nath died in Delhi. |
| 6/5/1659 | Dara Shukoh celebrated his coronation at Deorai after the final defeat. |
| 7/25/1970 | Pillai A. Thanu, former Chief Minister of Kerala, passed away. |
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