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Historical Event on 4/29/2000
The Army institutes a high-level court of inquiry under Maj. Gen. C.B. Suku to look into the causes of the arms depot conflagration.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/27/1939 | Rahul Dev (R. D.) Burman ""Pancham Da"", famous music director, was born. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 11/8/1991 | K.P.S. Gill reappointed DGP in Punjab. |
| 12/19/1999 | The President and the Prime Minister express shock over the bid to assassinate the Sri Lankan President, Chandrika Kumaratunga. |
| 6/4/1902 | Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928), was born. |
| 11/15/1911 | First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler. |
| 1/1/1992 | Petrol and diesel price hiked in 11 states to make it uniform all over the country. |
| 7/20/1654 | Portugal was taken over by Britishers. |
| 1/29/1996 | S.R. Bommai was replaced by Laloo Prasad Yadav as Janata Dal president. |
| 11/9/1904 | Panchanan Maheshwari was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers with different embryological studies. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchanani |
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