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Historical Event on 3/29/1999

A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/27/1989The second test launching of India's surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi', from Sri Harikota was successful.
6/7/1955Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, visited U.S.S.R.
5/21/1992Manohar J.Pherwani, 58, Chairman of the National Housing Bank, died.
6/23/1997Communication equipment worth several crores destroyed and Chennai's land and mobile telephone networks thrown out of gear in a fire at Anna Road telephone exchange.
12/28/1952Arun Jaitley, son of Maharaj Kishan Jaitley, was born in New Delhi.
3/5/1948C. Rajagopalachari appointed the first Indian Governor General to succeed Lord Mountbatten on 21 June.
11/7/1936Chandrakant Devtale, famous Hindi poet, was born.
10/19/1888Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem.
7/26/2000The Centre imposes a ban on employing children belowing 14 years as domestic servants by all Government employees in the All India services at the insistence of the NHRC.
7/26/2000Akbar responded with alacrity and arrived at Ahmadabad and made adequate arrangements for its administration.