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Historical Event on 9/29/2000

India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/8/1994Harikant Jethwani, famous Sindhi litterateur, passed away.
12/4/1796Bajirao became the second Peshwa.
6/7/1996Sq. Ldr. Sanjay Thapar of IAF becomes the first Indian to jump from a parachute and hoist the national flag at the North Pole.
2/18/1992Sikh extremists murder 17 people in Punjab.
4/9/1695Waman Pandit, famous pandit poet, took samadhee at Bhogav.
11/6/1946Gandhiji leaves for Noakhali; issues statement on ""Partial Fast"". Noakhali tour beg
5/9/1995Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast.
2/16/1992Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated.
10/16/1968Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
6/1/1972Space Commission and Department of Space was set up. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) brought under Department of Space (DOS).