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Historical Event on 1/29/1979
Tamil Nadu Expess, India's first Jumbo passenger train, was flagged off from New Delhi Railway Station for Madras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/29/1891 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur and Hindi writer, passed away in Calcutta. |
| 10/9/1942 | Bibi Amar Kaur, freedom fighter, successfully hoisted the national flag at Jail Gate of Lahore. She was then arrested and send to Ambala Jail. |
| 4/20/1971 | Air India started Boing 707 Jumbo Jet flight between Bombay and London. |
| 9/16/1996 | First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto. |
| 4/26/1929 | British fliers make a record nonstop 4,130-mile trip from London to India. |
| 3/15/1946 | Attlee offers India full independence after agreement on constitution in London. |
| 4/13/1997 | Anand wins Dos Hermanas chess crown. |
| 11/15/1982 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave, great freedom fighter and social reformer, died (88 years) in Pawnar Ashram at Wardha near Nagpur, Maharashtra. |
| 3/3/1999 | Four members of the forward Bhumihar community and alleged members of the Ranbir Sena are gunned down by an armed squad of the People's War Group in Bhimpura village of Jehanbad district in Bihar. |
| 9/16/1931 | Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, popularly known as George Sudarshan, was born in Kottayam, Kerala. He was a physicist of world repute. |
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