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Historical Event on 5/29/1977
Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterji, president of Sahitya Academy, National Professor and eminent linguist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/16/1996 | First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto. |
| 6/26/1954 | Nehru, Chou En-lai pledge good-neighbor policy at New Delhi. |
| 10/22/1873 | Swami Rama Tirtha, great social reformer and poet, was born at Murariwala village of Gujranwala district. He lectured throughout Japan and America spreading "practical Vedant |
| 12/9/1977 | Ravishankar Mahashankar Rawal, famous painter, passed away. |
| 2/1/1929 | Jyotirbhaskaracharya Jayant Salgaonkar was born. |
| 11/18/1772 | Madhav Rao Peshwa (the 4th peshwa ruler) died at the age of 28. Narayanrao succeeded him. |
| 1/22/1903 | Shankar Das Banerji, lawyer and politician, was born at Calcutta. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 5/5/1986 | Controversial Muslim Women Bill passed by Lok Sabha. |
| 12/26/1999 | Shankar Dayal Sharma (81), former President of India, died in New Delhi. |
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