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Historical Event on 12/29/1938

Mahavir Prasad Dvivedi, famous litterateur, writer, poet and editor, died at the age of 74.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/25/1910Dalai Lama, Tibeten monk, flees from Chinese troops and takes refuge in India.
1/18/1999Gul Panag (20) from Delhi was crowned Femina Miss India Universe at the Miss India 1999 beauty pageant in Pune.
2/15/1976The Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering (CIAE) was established at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi.
4/16/1959Raurkela Iron Project's first furnace started functioning.
12/28/1984Eighth General Election of India ends. Indian National Congress party wins with thumping majority.
9/29/1914Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries.
2/12/1890Shastri A. R. Krishna was born.
8/4/1956Apsara, India's first large scale Atomic Energy Nuclear Reactor and first in the East World, was commissioned in Trombay, Bombay.
9/20/1881Pandit Kashinath Babaji (Chandrakant Bhringa), famous Marathi writer, was born at Munjawad in Nasik.
1/15/1998Gulzari Lal Nanda, Gandhian freedom fighter and twice acting Prime Minister in 1964 and 1966, died in Ahmedabad at the age of 100 years.