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Historical Event on 4/16/1997

Govt. orders foreign and domestic airlines to install air safety systems by the end of 1998. Aircraft with more than 30 seats that do not have Airborne Collision Avoidance System and transponders not to be allowed into Indian airpace from 1/1/99.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/11/1960Pakistan and India agree on disputed boundary between Punjab and W. at Pakistan.
10/24/1955Ghulam Ahmad Hasan Muhammad Parkar, cricketer (Indian batsman vs England 1982), was born in Kalusta, Maharashtra.
5/15/1989NAL's 0.6 m transonic wind tunnel is commissioned. Total project cost is about Rs 20 million.
1/10/1993Atleast 15 people are killed in Bombay on the 5th day of riots between Hindus and Muslims.
1/10/1993Akbar removed 'Jeziya' or toll-tax for his non-Muslim subjects.
7/30/1987Rajiv Gandhi escaped an attack on him at Colombo.
9/7/1968Benipuri Sharma, famous Hindi novelist, died.
6/27/1999India won the four-nation under-21 women's hockey title, defeating England in the final at the Kean University, New Jersey.
9/3/1993Pawar resigns from Lok Sabha to take up the newly won Maharashtra Legislative Council seat.
5/28/1950Bhagwaticharan, great revolutionary, passed away.