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29th AUGUST TODAY IN HISTORY

Today in Indian History
Events for August 29

29-August-1612	Battle at Surat in India; English fleet beats Portuguese.
29-August-1880	Madhav Shrihari Ane, greatest Freedom fighter, was born.
29-August-1923	Hiralal Ghasulal Gaekwad, cricket all-rounder who played Test for India in 1952-53, was born in Nagpur.
29-August-1923	Sir Richard Attenborough, famous actor and director (Gandhi, Young Winston), was born.
29-August-1926	Ramkrishna Hegde, former Central Cabinet Minister and Chief Minister of Karnataka, was born.
29-August-1928	Hiralal Ghisulal Gaikwad, cricket all-rounder who played the only test vs Pakistan, was born in Nagpur.
29-August-1931	Gandhi arrives in London for second Round Table Conference on India.
29-August-1947	A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab.
29-August-1947	Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar became the President of Constitution Council.
29-August-1956	India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid.
29-August-1959	India sends troops to Tibet border to block the Chinese.
29-August-1974	Lokdal Party established under the presidency of Chaudhary Charansingh.
29-August-1975	Adinath Lahiri, leading geologist, passed away.
29-August-1976	Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh.
29-August-1982	Shree Maa Anandmayee of universal fame passed away. Her body was laid to rest at Shree Anandamayee Ashram in Kankhal.
29-August-1984	Indian Airlines Boeing 737 with 68 passengers and a crew of 6 hijacked in Lahore.
29-August-1991	Second operational Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1B) launched by a Russian launch vehicle, Vostok. It is still in service.
29-August-1992	Eco-mark introduced in Indian market to distinguish eco-friendly products, .
29-August-1993	Tamil refugees leave Madras for Sri Lanka apparently on their own free will.
29-August-1994	Tusharkanti Ghosh, world famous Indian journalist, passed away.
29-August-1995	National Sports Day declared.
29-August-1997	B.M. Sumavathi creats national record in heptathlon in the Federation Cup athletics.
29-August-1998	Prasar Bharti ordinance promulgated.
29-August-1998	Sachin Tendulkar receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Joginder Singh Saini receives the Dronacharya award, while several other leading sporstmen receive Arjuna award from President K.R. Narayanan in Delhi.
29-August-2000	Supreme Court releases of 115 'Veerappan aides' on bail or otherwise till further orders.