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Historical Event on 8/29/1947

A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/13/1990Boby Talyarkhan, famous sports critic and author, died.
4/6/1966Mihir Sen, first Indian swimmer to achieve many remarkable feats, swam across the 'Palk Strait' measuring 22 kms between India & Sri Lanka (Cylone).
11/20/1990Union Government asks Supreme Court to repeal the $470 million Bhopal Gas settlement order.
7/21/1999The Janata Dal splits under Deve Gowda and Sharad Yadav. The latter group to support NDA.
5/11/1999Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19.
5/2/1908Police in Calcutta discover a cache of explosives for use in alleged anarchist plot.
10/18/19921,000 police personnel occupy the Golden Temple in Amritsar to keep Punjab separatists away.
10/25/1983Technical Cell constituteded with a view to promote the use of official language Hindi on mechanical or electronic devices.
12/20/2000The Government accepts the Eleventh Finance Commission recommendation to extend grants to all the States from the Incentive Fund.
11/22/1968Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu.