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Historical Event on 7/29/1996

Aruna Asaf Ali, freedom fighter and player of important role in Quit India Movement, passed away in New Delhi. She was awarded with Bharat Ratna.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/14/1999Arvind Dave is appointed Governor of Arunachal Pradesh.
2/25/1999The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively.
9/28/1984First floodlights lit ODI between India and Australia held outside of Australia at New Delhi.
3/26/1990Sangma Ministry quits in Meghalaya. B. B. Lyngdoh is new CM.
8/25/1917The first significant step towards the Indianization of the Army was initiated when seven selected Indians, serving in the Army, were granted King's Commission in the Infantry and the Cavalry. Before the World War ended, two more Indians, who previously held temporary commissions, were granted King's Commission.
4/18/1991Kerala declared the first fully literate state in the country.
10/28/1998The 1997 B.C. Roy National Award was presented to 18 medical experts.
1/21/1910Ramnath Anandilal Poddar, great industrialist, was born.
7/12/1920Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
2/14/19674th Parliamentary Lok Sabha Election was held and the election process was completed on 15/02/1967.