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Historical Event on 8/29/1995

National Sports Day declared.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/12/1993Lok Sabha okays extension of President's rule in the former BJP-ruled states.
2/28/1985M.G. Katre became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/10/89).
8/10/1758Marathas won the Atak.
9/17/1892Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar, social reformer, revolutionary and poet, was born in Shillong.
6/9/199881 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone.
12/6/199813th Asian Games inaugurated at Bangkok.
11/1/1999SC refuses to interfere with the Delhi High Court order in TRAI case.
12/12/1971The first aerial victory was when MiG-21FLs of No. 47 Squadron shot down a PAF F-104 over the Gulf of Kutch and this was followed by three more victories in quick succession on 17 December, when MiG-21FLs of No. 29 Squadron escorting HF-24 Maruts, shot down intercepting F-104s near Uttarlai in the Rajasthan desert in gun-missile encounters, while a third F-104, on an intruding mission, was shot down by another MiG 21FL of No.29 Squadron.
6/25/16586th Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb arrested his father Shahjahan and put him in Agra Fort Jail.
10/31/1999Efforts to restore rail and telecom links on a war footing.