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Historical Event on 5/29/1982
Naval Academy at Ezhimala, Kerala, was approved by Union Cabinet.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/31/1994 | Pandit Samtaprasad, famous Tabla player, passed away. |
| 9/23/1999 | India rejects Pakistan's proposal for an international conference on arms control. |
| 1/22/1922 | Shanta Buddhisagar, famous Marathi writer, was born. |
| 7/19/1998 | Tremors measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale rocked Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. |
| 12/5/1959 | K. S. Duleepsinhji, cricketer (12 Tests for England, 995 runs), passed away. |
| 2/27/1993 | Samir Ranjan Barman, Tripura CM, resigns. |
| 2/20/1953 | India opens $ 140 mil. power system modeled after TVA. |
| 11/17/1935 | Deodhar Gopal Krishna, great social worker and architect of ""Seva Sadan"" (Pune), passed away. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Indian independence divided not only the country but its armed forces as well. These units came down and their equipment was transferred to the newly created Royal Pakistan Air Force. Thus, the principal components of the Royal Indian Air Force, during the partition, were nos. 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10 Squadrons with Tempest US, No. 2 Squadron with Spitfires and No. 12 Squadron with C-47s and No. 1 Air Observation Flight (AOF). The establishment of this AOF with AOP Auster 4s, 5s and 6s, coincided with independence. No. 6 Squadron, which had been in process of converting from Spitfires to C-47s at Drigh Road, had been stood down and its transports transferred to Pakistan. |
| 3/24/1998 | 200 people are killed in a tornado on both sides of the West Bengal-Orissa border. The toll includes 80 from West Bengal's Midnapore district. |
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