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Historical Event on 8/29/1880
Madhav Shrihari Ane, greatest Freedom fighter, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/19/1931 | Nandini Satpathy, politician, was born at Cuttack in Orissa. |
| 12/9/1977 | Ravishankar Mahashankar Rawal, famous painter, passed away. |
| 5/10/1992 | Dr. D.S.Tyagi, Chairman of the Agricultural Costs and Prices Commission, was shot dead by suspected Sikh terrorists in Delhi. |
| 7/3/1745 | Ranoji Shinde died. |
| 9/24/1859 | Nana Saheb, alias Dhundu Pant, one of the top leaders of Sepoy Mutiny, passed away in Nepal. |
| 12/20/1990 | India and Pakistan agree not to attack each other's nuclear installations. |
| 9/29/1997 | IRS-1D, fourth Indian Remote Sensing satellite, successfully launched off by PSLV-CI, the country's first operational polar satellite launch vehicle, from Sriharikota. With this launch, India became a member of the exclusive club of nations capable of launching the heavier class of satellites. |
| 10/19/1925 | B. Shankaranand, former central minister, was born. |
| 10/6/1954 | Nehru declared the National Health Scheme for the entire country. |
| 2/23/1962 | The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979). |
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