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Historical Event on 8/29/1612

Battle at Surat in India; English fleet beats Portuguese.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/27/1705Aurangzeb captured the Fort of Vagingera.
7/25/1929Somnath Chatterjee, politician and lawyer, was born.
12/16/1992The Parliament adopts resolution condemning the demolition of the mosque at Ayodhya and centre appoints a one-man judicial commission to enquire into the Ayodhya incidents.
7/29/1984Troops were sent to Hyderabad to quell communal riots.
5/10/1981The first day and night cricket match of India was played at the flood-lit ground of the Wilson College Gymkhana (Bombay).
6/25/1943No. 8 Squadron started functioning absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel, and also issued with a vengeance to achieve operational status.
9/23/1858Grant Duf, historian who studied Maratha history, died.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
11/29/1961First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India.
5/1/1996Ban imposed (through a Delhi high court judgment) on the film 'Bandit Queen', based on the life of Phoolan Devi, lifted by Supreme Court.