Today Importance - 29th August
29-August-1612
Battle of Surat, India; The English fleet defeated the Portuguese.
29-August-1880
Birth of great freedom fighter Madhav Srihari Anna.
29-August-1905
Major Dhyanchand was born in a Rajput family in Prayag, Uttar Pradesh. He is remembered as the master of hockey. India commends this day as Public Games Day.
29-August-1923
Hiralal Ghasulal Gaikwad, the cricket all-rounder who played Test for India in 1952–53, was born in Nagpur.
29-August-1923
Sir Richard Attenborough, noted actor and director (Gandhi, Young Winston), was born.
29-August-1926
Ramakrishna Hegde, former Union cabinet minister and Chief Minister of Karnataka, was born.
29-August-1928
Hiralal Ghisulal Gaikwad, the cricket all-rounder who played the only Test against Pakistan, was born in Nagpur.
29-August-1931
Gandhiji reached London for the Second Round Table Conference on India.
29-August-1947
A conference by the Governor General and the two Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to prevent communal riots in Punjab.
29-August-1947
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar became the President of the Constituent Assembly.
29-August-1956
India receives a Line of Credit of $360 million in the form of food aid.
29-August-1959
India sent troops to the Tibetan border to stop the Chinese.
29-August-1974
The Lok Dal party was formed under the chairmanship of Chaudhary Charan Singh.
29-August-1975
Renowned geologist Adinath Lahiri passed away.
29-August-1976
Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, the great revolutionary of Bengal, died during his visit to Dhaka, Bangladesh.
29-August-1982
Sri Ma Anandamayi, who attained universal fame, passed away. His body was buried at Sri Anandamayi Ashram in Kankhal.
29-August-1984
Indian Airlines Boeing 737 was hijacked in Lahore with 68 passengers and 6 crew on board.
29-August-1991
The second operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1B) was launched by the Russian launch vehicle Vostok. It is still in service.
29-August-1992
Eco-mark was introduced in the Indian market to differentiate eco-friendly products.
29-August-1993
Tamil refugees apparently of their own free will left Madras for Sri Lanka.
29-August-1994
World famous Indian journalist Tusharkanti Ghosh has passed away.
29-August-1995
Declaration of National Sports Day.
29-August-1997
Sumavathi created a national record in heptathlon at the BM Federation Cup Athletics.
29-August-1998
Prasar Bharati Ordinance promulgated.
29-August-1998
Sachin Tendulkar received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and Joginder Singh Saini the Dronacharya Award, and several other eminent sportspersons received the President K.R. Narayanan received the Arjuna Award in Delhi.
29-August-2000
The Supreme Court released 115 'Veerappan associates' on bail or otherwise till further orders.
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