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Historical Event on 6/29/1901

Amal Kumar Sarkar, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/26/1858Diwan Maniram and Piali Barua were hanged. (Grandson of Purandara Simha, the last Ahom king of Assam).
8/11/2000Usha Mehta, great Gandhian, passed away.
4/6/2000The Government permits use of LPG as auto fuel.
2/28/1968International City Auroville inaugurated the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondechery.
2/23/1946Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns.
7/1/1989New Governors were appointed in five states. Gen. K. V. Krishna Rao became Governor for J&K.
10/31/199426 die as cyclone lashes Tamil Nadu.
11/5/1907Special commissioner appointed to deal with famine conditions.
8/18/1945Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose left Saigon and is believed to have died in a Japanese aeroplane crash at Taihoku Airport in Taiwan.
6/28/1975Netherlands gives independence to Dutch Guyana, which becomes Suriname; one third of Hindus (descendants of Indian plantation workers) emigrate to Netherlands for better social and economic conditions.