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Historical Event on 5/29/1987

Chaudhary Charan Singh, former Prime Minister, leader of farmers and freedom fighter, passed away at the age of 85 yrs.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/3/1983U.S. Census reports world population at 4.72 billion. China has 1.05 billion and India 731 million.
8/11/1916Gopal Raghunath Bewur, former Chief of Army and fighter, was born.
7/14/1992The Lok Sabha passes a bill seeking to confer on the President the powers of the Legislature of J&K.
11/24/1924Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman, famous political cartoonist, was born.
9/15/1953S. Vijayalakshmi Pandit was elected as the first lady President of the eighth session of the United Nations Organisation's (UNO) General Assembly.
9/15/1953Mughals, under the leadership of Akbar, defeated Hindu ruler Hemu in the second battle of Panipat.
1/15/1784Sir William Jones, Judge and linguist, and Sir Warren Hastings established the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta. This was the first scholastic institution.
7/31/1993K. Vijaya Rama Rao became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/07/96).
8/13/1998India signs two agreements with the World Bank for concessional credit through the International Development Association for $115.4 million.
1/15/1656Chhatrapati Shivaji conquered Javali state.