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Historical Event on 10/29/1999
L .K. Advani, Home Minister, says the Centre is in touch with cyclone-hit states.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/19/1757 | The first rupee coin was minted in Calcutta by the East India Company. |
| 7/7/1763 | Britishers declared Mir Jafer as Nawab of Bengal. |
| 6/23/1985 | Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died. |
| 4/24/1996 | Indian Express launches Vizag (17th) edition. |
| 4/12/1983 | Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' wins 8 Oscars. |
| 4/15/1984 | Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab, India. |
| 2/10/1992 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands opened for foreign travellers. |
| 1/8/1964 | Jack ""Murph the Surf"" Murphy, 27, and a companion were arrested in Miami as suspects in the theft of $410,000 rare gems from the American Museum of Natural History in October of last year. The world's largest sapphire, the Star of India, and eight of the other 22 stolen gems were returned to New York in an attorney's coat pocket, having been recovered in two water-logged suede pouches from a Miami bus terminal locker with the help of a third suspect. The three described themselves as ""beach boys."" Murphy is a sometimes an aquatic clown, but mainly they were notorious jewel thieves. Murphy was also accused of pistol-whipping actress Eva Gabor and stealing jewels worth $50,000 from her a year ago. |
| 1/12/1901 | Umashankar Dikshit, senior leader of Indira Congress, was born. |
| 7/16/1956 | K. L. Pawar, who guided students for the written examinations, was born. |
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