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Historical Event on 12/29/1975

D.K. Barooah elected Congress President.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1879Post Card of one paisa was started in India by the Post and Telegraph Department.
1/15/1993PM asks for judicial probe into Bombay riots, sanctions Rs. 1 crore aid for victims.
5/28/1963Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India).
12/11/1992UP acquistion of land in Ayodhya quashed by Allahabad High Court.
5/31/1977Major Premchand and Naik Nima Dorji Sherpa, in the team on Indian Army Treckers, reached the peak of Kanchenjunga. They were amongst the first Indians to reach this peak.
1/23/1972Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party; 100 die in New Delhi.
5/10/1996PM P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Council of Ministers resign.
1/24/1976Burmah Shell, a private oil company, was nationalised and renamed as Bharat Refineries.
5/12/1993Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away.
7/23/1993Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2B), second satellite in the INSAT-2 series, was launched. This is more operational multi-purpose communication and enhanced meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was aunched by European Ariane launch vehicle.