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Historical Event on 1/29/1968
Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, one Test for India, died.
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| 3/18/1996 | President confers gallantry awards on 65 personnel of the defence forces. |
| 6/20/1858 | Gwalior fort was captured by British troops and the first Indian Sepoy Mutiny officially came to an end. |
| 6/23/1953 | Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician, national leader and founder of JanSangh Party, died at Srinagar while in detention. |
| 10/20/1990 | Kona Prabhakar Rao, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
| 2/19/1997 | Massive blowout in ONGC oil field at Devarapally, A.P. |
| 11/21/1947 | First Stamp of Independent India was released |
| 2/23/1997 | Successful test firing of the 250-km version of the Prithvi missile. |
| 1/30/1905 | Pitamber Das, social reformer and politician, was born at Mowana, U.P. |
| 1/26/1950 | India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth and the Indian Air Force dropped its ""Royal"" prefix. At this time, it possessed six fighter squadrons of Spitfires, Vampires and Tempests, operating from Kanpur, Poona, Ambala and Palam, one B-24 bomber squadron, one C-47 Dakota transport squadron, one AOP flight, a communications squadron at Palam and a growing training organisation. |
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