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Historical Event on 7/29/1901

Rudyard Kipling, the renowned author of stories and poems about colonial India and an unofficial spokesman for the British Empire, joined the rising chorus of criticism in regard to Britain's conduct in the increasingly unpopular Boer War.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/12/1907Durgaprasad Mandelia, famous merchant and industrialist, was born.
3/12/1911Daman Div Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, was born.
1/3/1946Three High Ranked Officers of Azad Hind Fauj were released by Gen. C. Auchinleck.
12/25/1879Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born.
7/20/1969M. Hidayatullah became the first acting President of India.
2/11/1944Buddhadev Dasgupta, director (Charachar, Grihajuddha), was born.
5/4/1957Rai Chaudhary Hemchandra, great historian, passed away.
10/21/1990Doordarshan starts afternoon news bulletins at 2 p.m. (Hindi) and 3 p.m. (English) of 7.5 minutes duration on week days and 5 minutes on Sundays.
10/2/1999Home Minister L. K. Advani said that the BJP was ready to provide letters of support.
1/3/1975Lalit Narayan Mishra, great freedom fighter, politician, leader, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of Railways, died at a Railway Hospital in Danapur due to a bomb blast at Samastipur Railway Station a day earlier.