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Historical Event on 8/29/1947
A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/21/2000 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces a special fund for population projects with the Planning Commission providing seed money of Rs. 100 crores. He was addressing the maiden meeting of the National Population Commission. |
| 12/19/1917 | Ashoknath Banerjee, Governor of Karnataka, was born. |
| 8/15/1972 | Postal Index Number (PIN Code) of 6-digits was introduced. |
| 6/11/1984 | 574 Sikh army deserters arrested. |
| 5/13/1648 | Redfort construction was completed |
| 12/10/1967 | Earthquake hit Koyna Nagar. |
| 5/25/1999 | The Prime Minister declares the Centre will take all possible steps to push back infiltrators in Kargil. |
| 10/6/1999 | INLD-BJP combine wins by big margin in Haryana. |
| 9/9/1997 | G. K. Moopanar, Tamil Maanila Congress president, and his party colleagues Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, and Peter Alphonse, resign from Rajya Sabha membership following a petition filed by Shiv Sena member Sanjay Nirupam seeking their disqualification 'for defecting from Congress(I)'. |
| 6/22/1910 | Mohommed Hussain `Azad', great Urdu poet, eassy writer and critic, died. |
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