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Historical Event on 8/29/1994
Tusharkanti Ghosh, world famous Indian journalist, passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/31/1992 | The Securities and Exchange Board of India given statutory power as an autonomous body. |
3/12/1996 | Last session of the 10th Lok Sabha ends. |
7/24/1911 | Pannalal Ghosh, famous flute player, was born. |
7/24/1999 | Om Prakash Chautala is sworn in the Chief Minister of Haryana, and will seek trust vote on July 27. |
5/30/1826 | The first Hindi newspaper 'Udant Martand' was published from Calcutta under the Editorship of Pandit Shridhar Shukla. |
6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
4/20/1997 | Sheri Bamboat and Hamshad Bamboat win National sea-bird sailing title. |
6/18/1946 | First Satyagraha movement was started for Goa liberation from the Portuguese. |
3/27/2000 | Mohan Bagan lifts title in the National Football league in Calcutta. |
2/1/1931 | Gandhi chiefs order campaign of civil disobedience to continue. |
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