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Historical Event on 1/29/1948

Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/21/199227 killed in a bomb blast engineered by Bodo extremists in a bus in Assam.
8/7/1988N. T. Ramarao elected chairman and V.P. Singh the convenor of the National Front.
12/11/1963Kewalam Madhav Panikkar, veteran politician and famous historian, passed away.
2/17/1994Former US Congressman Stephan Solarz named Ambassador of India.
8/5/1921Malhi Govind, modern Sindhi novelist, was born.
12/3/1971Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief.
11/28/1962K. C. Dey, well-known famous blind singer of Bengal, died.
10/27/1989The XIV-World Congress of Neurology was held in New Delhi under the auspices of the World Federation of Neurology and Neurology Society of India. (21-10-89).
1/24/1995Congress (I) suspends Arjun Singh from the party.
3/9/1961Vishnu Sahay was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 15-04-1962.