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Historical Event on 4/29/1954
India accepted Tibet as a part of China.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
9/6/1994 | Prime Minister Narsimha Rao meets with his counterpart Vo Van Kiet at Hanoi. Both countries decide to boost ties. |
8/17/1994 | Opposition ends Parliament boycott. |
11/10/1938 | Mustafa Kemal Ataturk passed away at Istanbul. |
4/11/1999 | Tamil Nadu men, Railways women emerged National Volleyball League champions in Triprayar. |
9/27/1908 | Shiv Verma, great soldier, was born. |
1/11/1999 | Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu. |
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 |
12/4/1910 | Amar Singh Ladha Nakum, cricketer (dashing Indian all-rounder of thirties), was born at Rajkot. |
12/23/1977 | Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born. |
9/2/1956 | Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India). |
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