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Historical Event on 8/29/1991
Second operational Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1B) launched by a Russian launch vehicle, Vostok. It is still in service.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/14/1896 | Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance Minister of India, was born. |
| 3/11/1886 | Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi became the first Indian lady doctor. She passed the MBBS degree from Philadelphia University of America. |
| 4/28/1943 | Netaji Subash Chandra Bose aligned the Japanese-German submarine at Medagaskar. |
| 7/1/1862 | Calcutta High Court was established for West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This Court has a Circuit Bench at Port Blair. |
| 8/5/2000 | Lala Amarnath (88), former Indian cricketer, died in New Delhi. |
| 6/13/2000 | Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, announces a one-time settlement of outstanding loans below Rs. 10 crores in a move aimed at ridding the public sector banks of Rs. 51,000 crores of bad loans. |
| 4/23/1946 | Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan, exchanging its Spitfire Vllls for Mk XlVs in October and arriving in Japan aboard HMS vengence. |
| 4/23/1946 | Pedro Cabral departs from Pourtugol with 13 ships to India. |
| 7/20/1905 | First Partition of Bengal, which was proposed by Lord Curzon, was accepted by British Government's Minister of India. |
| 9/14/1992 | S. A. Banerjee, cricketer who played one Test for India in 1948 without scoring any runs but took 5 wkts, died. |
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