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Historical Event on 1/29/1896
Swami Paranabananda Brahamachari, founder of `Bharat Sevashram Sangha', was born in Bajitpur village of Faridpur district. He took 'sanyas' in 1924.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/11/1997 | Sadhana Mukherjee, a sex-worker from Calcutta, represents India at the first international conference on prostitution beginning in Los Angeles. |
| 3/24/1924 | Virendrakumar Bhattacharya, Gyanpeeth award winner and Assamia novelist, was born. |
| 11/15/1988 | Dalai Lama agreed for less then independent country to save the cultural heritage of Tibet. |
| 7/4/1992 | Sanskrit made a compulsory subject from sixth to intermediate classes in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 9/4/1987 | Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan. |
| 7/29/1901 | Rudyard Kipling, the renowned author of stories and poems about colonial India and an unofficial spokesman for the British Empire, joined the rising chorus of criticism in regard to Britain's conduct in the increasingly unpopular Boer War. |
| 6/23/1984 | An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid. |
| 1/2/1994 | Warden's in Arambaug, India lead about a fifty hungry and bruised elephants into a forest for temporary shelter. After a week, the herd strayed from a santuary, stampeding villagers and terrorising peasants. |
| 5/28/1950 | Bhagwaticharan, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 12/9/1994 | Gorprasad Ghosh, famous Orriya film actor, director and producer, passed away. |
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