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Historical Event on 5/29/1947

Establishment of Indian Standard Institution.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/18/1999R. B. Sapre, India's first national chess champion, died in Mumbai.
1/11/1994Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy.
8/29/1956India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid.
9/14/1893Celebration of 'Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav' (Festival of Lord Ganesha) started.
7/25/1997Kocheril Raman Narayanan (K. R. Narayanan) became the 10th President of India.
2/4/1953Indo-Pak talk on Kashmir opened under Dr. Graham in Geneva.
12/10/1902Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria.
12/16/1960Ganesh Chintaman Karve, creator of Marathi dictionary and author, passed away.
7/16/1969Air Chief Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, DFC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 15/01/1973.
10/24/2000Delhi High Court admitted the appeal of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao against the lower court judgement in the JMM MPs' bribery case.