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Historical Event on 8/29/1976

Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/21/1995A.K. Antony elected CM of Kerala.
9/9/1941Syed Abid Ali, great Indian medium pace-bowler and all-rounder, was born at Hyderabad.
8/28/1997Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be allowed to contest elections even if an appeal against the conviction was pending in a higher court.
5/8/1901British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population.
11/17/1986SAARC Summit at Bangalore decides to set up permanent secretariat at Kathmandu; India elected new Chairman.
10/10/1978Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'.
3/28/1978Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe (1997), was born.
11/11/1994The Supreme Court stays Karnataka Reservation Act.
11/1/1999H. K. Dua, senior Journalist and former editor of The Indian Express and The Hindustan Times, is appointed the Press Adviser to the Prime Minister.
8/19/1993Sharad Pawar elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council from Pune.