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Historical Event on 9/29/1914
German cruiser Emden shells Madras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/5/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi reached Dandi, a small costal village in Gujarat, after travelling 385 kms with 78 followers to break the recently imposed ""Salt Law"". This event is known as 'Dandi March' and was started from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad. |
| 1/3/1931 | Yashwant Dinkar Phadke, great critic of literature, was born. |
| 8/25/1919 | Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal, former Chief Minister of Bihar and President of Mandal Commission, was born. |
| 10/27/1947 | Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 4/14/1907 | P. C. Joshi, famous Leftist leader and thinker, was born. |
| 6/29/1908 | Pratapsing Gaekwad, Prince of Baroda, was born. |
| 7/28/1912 | Ramchandra Gondo Ginde, famous neuro surgeon, was born. |
| 6/8/1968 | Madhuri Mani Iyyer, famous singer of Karnatak Gharana, passed away. |
| 8/29/1994 | Tusharkanti Ghosh, world famous Indian journalist, passed away. |
| 4/17/1996 | Sheila Kaul, H.P. Governor, indicted in house allotment scandal, should be removed from her post, says Supreme Court. |
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