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Historical Event on 8/29/1975
Adinath Lahiri, leading geologist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/31/1972 | Meena Kumari, famous film actress, passed away. |
| 9/9/1872 | Sarladevi Chaudharani, Bengali poet, was born. |
| 1/22/2000 | India retains the golf title in the SAARC championship in Dhaka. |
| 4/2/1980 | S. S. Grewal was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-04-1981. |
| 4/2/1980 | Maharana Pratap Singh of Udaipur, great freedom fighter, soldier and revolutionary, passed away. His son Amar Singh succeeded him. |
| 2/2/1996 | Doordarshan Kendra was inagurated at Port Blair. |
| 7/25/1929 | Somnath Chatterjee, politician and lawyer, was born. |
| 3/14/1931 | First Indian talkie film 'Alam Ara' released at Majestic Cinema, Bombay. Directed by Ardeshir Irani, the film was 11,152 ft. long and was produced by Imperial Film Co., Bombay and beared censored No. 10043 on March 11. The most remarkable thing about this film was birth of sound in Indian films, it came with a bang and quickly displaced the silent movies and brought revolutionary changes in the whole set up of the industry. |
| 7/19/1987 | Rajiv Gandhi,Congress President, expels V.P. Singh from Congress and orders probe into Ajitabh Bachhan's property abroad. |
| 5/1/1973 | All non-fuel Coal Mines fields were nationalised. |
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