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Historical Event on 12/29/1965

First Indian-made tank 'Vijayanta' rolled off the Avadi Heavy Vehicles factory.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/23/1902Chaudhary Charan Singh was born at Noopur village in Hapur Tehsil near Meerut. He was a freedom fighter and had done many deeds for upliftment of Agriculture in India. He was the Prime Minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980.
4/9/1695Waman Pandit, famous pandit poet, took samadhee at Bhogav.
11/19/19971996 Indira Gandhi prize for peace, disarmament and development presented to Medicins Sans Frontieres, a non-government organisation, providing medical aid to the needy across the globe, by President K. R. Narayanan on the 80th birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi.
1/31/1903Smt. Sharda Bhaurao Diwan, educationalist, was born.
5/6/199712 persons killed and eight seriously injured in two blasts in east Delhi.
2/10/1999P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.
1/1/1989This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of the Young Reader"".
12/9/1992More than 700 die in clashes in Ayodhya; BJP bandh partial.
8/23/1947Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was sworn is as the Deputy Prime Minister of India.
4/1/1954Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee became the first Indian to become the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 08/Nov/1960.