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Historical Event on 4/29/1960
Pandit Balkrishna Sarma ''Navin'', famous Hindi poet of modern era, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/4/1924 | Kocheril Raman Narayan, ninth Vice President of India and now president of India, was born. |
| 12/24/1984 | Eigth General Elections of India began . |
| 4/2/1993 | MP High Court quashes dismissal of BJP Government under article 356; the Centre decides to move the Supreme Court. |
| 9/6/1905 | Satyacharan Chaterjee, great Indian Geologist, was born. |
| 10/28/1992 | Karnataka government withdraws order allowing nine private organisations to start capitation fee for engineering colleges. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel. |
| 12/16/1867 | Amy Carmichael, Scotch Irish missionary, was born. She went to India in 1895 under the Zenana Missionary Society, remaining there without furlough until her death 56 years later. An invalid during her last 20 years, she worked to rescue children from the Hindus. |
| 8/4/1997 | Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ""should be treated as cancelled"", as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members. |
| 8/9/1992 | Golden jubilee celebrations of the Quit India Movement begin in Bombay. |
| 5/5/1992 | Prithvi, India's medium range surface-to-surface missile, successfully launched. |
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