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Historical Event on 11/29/1926
Prabhakar Narayan Padhye (Bhau Padhye), great journalist and litterateur, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1992 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Space Year"". |
| 5/23/1903 | Gemini Roy, famous Painter, joined Government School of Arts and Crafts at Calcutta. |
| 5/21/1935 | Quetta earthquake takes a heavy toll of life. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 6/20/1979 | Renedy Singh, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Manipur. |
| 8/7/1991 | India successfully launches Prithvi-III, surface-to-air missile from Sriharikota. |
| 5/9/1998 | Kirit Raval is appointed Solicitor-General of India. |
| 3/23/1982 | Annasaheb Patil, father of Maratha Mahasangh, passed away. |
| 2/14/2000 | The Supreme Court stays the Karnataka High Court judgment quashing the State Government's Ashraya scheme for providing plots to the poor. |
| 3/21/1971 | Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown. |
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