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Historical Event on 3/29/1977
S. N. Mathur became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 02/05/77).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/9/1951 | The first census of free India of enumeration work was started. |
| 1/15/1929 | Dr. Martin Luther King, civil rights leader of the United States of America, freedom fighter and Nobel Prize awardee, was born at America. |
| 11/21/1947 | First postal stamp of indepedent India of three and half annas denomination was started. Major General Cariappa took over from Lieutenant General Sir Francies Tulker as the Army Commander, Eastern Command, in the rank of Lieutenant General. |
| 1/17/1987 | Tata Football Academy was opened in Tatanagar. |
| 3/11/1975 | Battle between Marathas and Nizam at Kharda. |
| 7/5/1993 | Air Marshal Swarup Krishna Kaul appointed Chief of Air Staff. |
| 7/5/1993 | Vasco De Gama, Portuguese navigator who discovered India, died in Cochin. |
| 12/11/1998 | Kavi Pradeep (84), poet who received 1998 Dadasaheb Phalke award, dies in Mumbai. He was a patriotic song writer and wrote several immortal Hindi film songs. |
| 4/8/1759 | British troops chase French out of Masulipatam, India. |
| 12/17/1978 | Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died. |
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