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Historical Event on 12/29/1938

Mahavir Prasad Dvivedi, famous litterateur, writer, poet and editor, died at the age of 74.

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1/1/1986This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Peace Year"".
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10/14/1999Sheikh Shamim, an Indian, is hanged for espionage in Pakistan.
4/11/2000Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'.
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8/20/1997Lata Mangeshkar receives the Fifth Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award from the President.
11/9/1990Vishwanath Pratap Singh resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India after losing the Vote of Confidence moved against him.
10/2/1957All India Scheduled Caste Federation formally dissolved and a new political party 'Republican Party of India' was formed.
6/20/1993Harshad Mehta's senior counsel Ram Jethmalani asks JPC to summon the PM and allow cross-examination.