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Historical Event on 12/29/1885

A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/24/1762Gopalrao defeated in the battle of Jamkhindi.
2/13/1719Jahandar Shah was strangled to death and the Sayyid brothers were killed soon after.
12/10/1999Dara Singh, the prime accused in the killing of Australian missionary, again gives a slip to police.
7/3/1936Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling during Cambridge U vs MCC match.
6/4/1986Masti Vyanktesh Iyengar, famous Kannad author and Gyanpeeth Puraskar awardee, passed away.
1/12/1992India and Russia sign a new political treaty.
9/20/1997President K. R. Narayanan inaugurates the first Dr. Ambedkar Law University in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
6/25/1997USA & India sign a new bilateral treaty for the extradition of fugitive offenders.
4/18/1859Tatya Tope (his original name was Ramchandra Raghunath Tope) a leader of Sepoy Mutiny, was captured in April, courtmarshalled and hanged at Sivpuri for 1857 Indian Mutiny.
3/16/1993Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people.