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Historical Event on 3/29/1849
Maharaj Dulip Singh left the throne of Punjab that once belonged to his late father Ranjit Singh and was then occupied by the East India Company. The Britishers had captured it after defeating the Sikh Army at Amritsar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/16/1996 | Union Cabinet Minister V.C. Shukla, Balram Jhakar, Madhavrao Scindia, and others including BJP President L.K. Advani, Arjun Singh and Devi Lal chargesheeted in the multi-crore Jain `Hawala' case. CBI seeks sanction to prosecute them. L.K. Advani resigns from Lok Sabha membership. |
| 12/4/1796 | Bajirao became the second Peshwa. |
| 5/20/1976 | Oil production started from Bombay High. |
| 1/10/1993 | India asks Pakistan to reduce its diplomatic strength by 40. |
| 5/15/1958 | Gift Tax Act was introduced. |
| 6/16/1925 | Chittaranjan Das, great freedom fighter, revolutionary, orator, poet, journalist and lawyer, died. |
| 1/22/1989 | DMK swept to power in Tamil Nadu Assembly election. |
| 11/18/1988 | Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Delhi on a three-day visit. |
| 10/10/1977 | 61 people died in an accident between a passenger train and a freight train at Naini. |
| 11/16/1908 | Bommi Narsingh Reddy, famous film story writer, was born. |
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