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Historical Event on 10/29/1988

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya, freedom fighter and political leader, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/29/1916Vasant Shridhar Vaidya, great industrialist, was born at Phaltan.
7/28/1989Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was disqualified from Rajya Sabha. It was the first case of such disqualification from the House under anti-defection law.
1/20/1999Renowned playwright Girish Karnad is selected for the 1998 Jnanpith Award.
6/28/1857Nana Sahib proclaimed himself as the Peshwa and called for the total extermination of the British power of India at Bithoor.
8/4/1997Nilesh Kulkarni becomes the first Indian to take a wicket with his first ball in Test Cricket (Colombo).
9/3/1906Prithviraj Kapoor, veteran film actor, was born in Peshawar. His first film was 'Challenge' (1929). He is the founder of Prithvi Theatre in Bombay. He is remembered for his immortal role of Akbar is film 'Mugul-E-Azam'.
3/24/1968The second Indian-made rocket 'Menaka' successfully launched at the Thumba station.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
1/16/1942Jawaharlal Nehru succeeds Gandhi as head of Indian National Congress.
11/30/1986Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab.