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Historical Event on 5/29/1933

Kishorilal Goswami, famous Hindi novelist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/28/1940Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away. He was also known as ""The Chhattisgarh Gandhi"".
12/1/1960Air Marshal Aspy Merwan Engineer DFC became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/07/1964.
8/13/1995Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar.
10/10/1970Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.
2/17/1997Notorious criminal Charles Sobhraj released from jail after 20 years, and re-arrested soon after release under Foreigners' Regional Registration Act.
10/10/1998Dr. Justice Adarsh Sein Anand was sworn in Chief Justice of India.
4/27/1919Ustad Allarakha Khan, great Tabla player, was born.
1/26/1997Government prohibits manual scavenging and construction of dry latrines in six states (AP, Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tripura, West Bengal) and all UTs.
5/5/1986Controversial Muslim Women Bill passed by Lok Sabha.
11/22/1999V. S. Rama Devi and Vishnu Kant Shastri appointed the new Governors of Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh.