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Historical Event on 10/29/1996
Kamini' (Kalpakkam Mini), a 30 KW research reactor which uses man-made Uranium-233 as fuel and the only working reactor of its kind in the world, attains 'criticality'.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/11/1881 | Ashley Eden unveiled in Calcutta Town Hall the first statue of Indians Ram Nath Tagore and Dwarkanath Tagore. |
| 4/26/1929 | British fliers make a record nonstop 4,130-mile trip from London to India. |
| 6/11/1997 | BSE sensitive index reaches 3927. |
| 4/17/1946 | Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, greatest social reformer, freedom fighter, educationist, politician, master, scholar of Sanskrit and President of India, passed away. |
| 2/21/1991 | The President accepts the resignation of 5 cabinet members who were disqualified by the Speaker as per the anti-defection law. |
| 2/3/1929 | The ""Times of India Illustrated Weekly"" was renamed as ""The Illustrated Weekly of India"". |
| 11/18/1978 | Dhirendra Ganguly, film maker, writer, director and actor, passed away. |
| 10/2/1972 | Broadcasting of Mumabi Doordarshan started. |
| 12/20/1990 | India and Pakistan agree not to attack each other's nuclear installations. |
| 1/19/1966 | Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs. |
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