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Historical Event on 6/29/1908

Pratapsing Gaekwad, Prince of Baroda, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/30/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announced a package for small units raising the ceiling on loans from Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs. For the handloom sector, a separate scheme costing Rs. 447 crores was also finalised.
8/1/1947Partition of India into India and Pakistan. Power transferred. Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan.
1/10/1996All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films.
7/24/1991Industrial licensing scrapped.
4/19/1976Maharshi Dayanand University established in Haryana.
9/4/1993Lawyers all over the country decide to abolish addresses like 'My Lord', 'Your Lordship' and replace them with 'Sir', 'Your Honour,' etc.
2/15/1993India regains ""Rubber"" after 6 years by beating England by an innings and 70 runs at Madras.
12/6/1897Lekhraj Kishanchand Mirchandani (Aziz), famous Sindhi poet, essay writer and critic, was born.
12/10/1996Supreme Court bans employment of child labour in hazardous industries.
1/10/1986Pakistan decides to lift 8-year-old ban on private trade with India.