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Historical Event on 12/29/1938
Mahavir Prasad Dvivedi, famous litterateur, writer, poet and editor, died at the age of 74.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/17/1991 | Prabhakar Machve, great litterateur, passed away. |
| 1/28/1902 | Gandhiji left for Rangoon visit. Stays for a month with Gokhale at Calcutta. Returns to Rajkot and settles down to practise. |
| 5/12/1995 | India refused to sign NPT in its present discriminatory form. |
| 4/30/1996 | Re-polling in 445 stations in six states. |
| 9/15/1912 | Rusi Karanjia, journalist and publisher, was born. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 5/11/1999 | Centre removes the West Bengal Governor A. R. Kidwai. The Arunachal Pradesh Governor Mata Prasad had also been asked to step down. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics. |
| 11/17/1999 | India beats New Zealand by seven wickets to win the one-day cricket series in New Delhi. Saurav Ganguly adjudged the 'man of the match' and 'man of the series'. |
| 3/1/1909 | First Indian Iron Company 'Tata Iron and Steel' established. |
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