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Historical Event on 12/29/1957
8,000 ton cruiser INS Mysore commissioned.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/16/1997 | Mamata Banerjee, Congress(I) rebel, declares that she would seek recognition and separate symbol for her ""Trinamul Congress'' and contest elections on her own. |
| 1/4/1940 | Shrikant Sinkar, famous Marathi novelist, was born. |
| 3/29/1998 | The new govt. wins the vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha. |
| 1/7/1859 | The Bahadur Shah II case trial was started, which ended on March 29. |
| 6/15/1948 | Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, passed away. |
| 6/19/1947 | Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay. |
| 6/19/1947 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 7/1/1962 | Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, great leader, veteran nationalist, politician, professor, physician and architect, passed away. |
| 9/10/1872 | Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji ""Ranji"", Maharaj Jamsaheb of Nawanagar and noted cricketer, was born in village Sarodar near Jamnagar, Kathiawad. He was referred as ""The prince of a little state, but the king of a great game"". He also played for Sussex. |
| 11/16/1860 | First group of Indian worker's reached Natal, South Africa. |
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