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Historical Event on 11/29/1926
Prabhakar Narayan Padhye (Bhau Padhye), great journalist and litterateur, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/30/1950 | Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away. |
| 3/21/1976 | The Indian people have delivered a stinging rebuke to the woman who had ruled them without the benefit of a constitution for the past 19 months by dumping her from office in a landslide election. After 11 years of rule, Indira Gandhi has resigned, and in an uncharacteristically humble statement said she ""accepted the verdict unreservedly"" and promised ""constructive cooperation"" with the new government. The heads of the victorious parties immediately dropped the year-and-a-half-old state of emergency, freed political prisoners, and began negotiations over who would head the new government. |
| 8/22/1993 | The first batch of IAF troops landed in the capital city of Mogadishu. |
| 8/22/1993 | Sher Shah defeats Humayun near Buxar at Chausa and becomes emperor of Delhi. |
| 11/20/1902 | Gandhiji returned to South Africa at the request of the Indian community and revived the Indians against Anti-Asian Laws. |
| 6/10/1959 | Tyagmurti Goswami Ganeshdutt, social worker, died near Hardwar. |
| 2/18/1983 | Violence between Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Singhalese in Sri Lanka marks beginning of Tamil rebellion by Tiger freedom fighters demanding an independent nation called Eelam. Prolonged civil war results. |
| 1/8/1987 | P. G. Joshi, cricketer (12 Tests for India 1951-60, ct 18 stp 9), passed away. |
| 4/1/1944 | Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India. |
| 2/19/1997 | Massive blowout in ONGC oil field at Devarapally, A.P. |
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