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Historical Event on 9/29/1836

Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established in Madras

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/25/1989P. Baiju, Anand Shetty, Arjun Deviah, Ananda Natarajan set a record for India at the 4x100m relay meet in 40.14s at Islamabad.
1/26/2001Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Ustad Bismillah Khan.
5/15/1992BSE closed.
9/22/1996Passport seekers are given an option of 10 years (Rs. 300) or 20 years (Rs. 600) period.
11/18/1997School bus plunges into the Yamuna killing 28 Delhi children.
7/31/1914Amar Nath Chawla, politician, was born at Taunggri, (Burma).
7/8/1999The bodies of 12 soldiers, who martyred in Kargil battle, were brought to New Delhi. So far 321 soldiers were killed and 476 wounded in operation Vijay.
9/22/1970Bandopadhyay Shardendu, modern Bengali poet, died.
5/19/1904Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.
11/5/1998Baba Nagarjun ""Vaidyanath Mishra"" died. He wrote in Hindi, Maithali and Sanskrit. Some of his noted works are ""Patra-Heen- Nagna Gachh"", ""Dukhmochan"", ""Yugdhara"" and ""Sah