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Historical Event on 11/29/1959
Govind Sakharam Serdesai, Jagirdar Raobahadur, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/17/1897 | Dhirendra Varma, famous linguist, was born. |
| 10/31/1962 | Krishna Menon, Home Minister, resign due to attack by China. |
| 10/28/1964 | Padmabhushan Vaikunthbhai Mehta, famous Gandhian leader, passed away. |
| 11/3/1984 | Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated. |
| 5/12/1998 | Bill Clinton, US President, asks India to sign the CTBT. |
| 11/30/1994 | Laxmi Menon, former Foreign state minister, died. |
| 5/13/1953 | The first Indian Navy air station INS Garuda was commissioned at Venduruthy, the naval base in Cochin. |
| 3/12/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence. |
| 2/9/1951 | The first census of free India of enumeration work was started. |
| 2/9/1951 | Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal was succeeded as the Viceroy of Protuguese India by Affonso de Albuquerque, who is regarded as the real founder at Portuguese power in India. |
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