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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 |
10/12/1907 | Durgaprasad Mandelia, famous merchant and industrialist, was born. |
3/12/1911 | Daman Div Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, was born. |
1/3/1946 | Three High Ranked Officers of Azad Hind Fauj were released by Gen. C. Auchinleck. |
12/25/1879 | Sadhu 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. |
7/20/1969 | M. Hidayatullah became the first acting President of India. |
2/11/1944 | Buddhadev Dasgupta, director (Charachar, Grihajuddha), was born. |
5/4/1957 | Rai Chaudhary Hemchandra, great historian, passed away. |
10/21/1990 | Doordarshan 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. |
10/2/1999 | Home Minister L. K. Advani said that the BJP was ready to provide letters of support. |
1/3/1975 | Lalit 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. |
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