Today Importance - 29th September
29-Sep-1708
English East India Organization and New East India Organization blended.
29-Sep-1725
Robert Clive, diplomat and one of the founders of the British Empire in India, is born.
29-Sep-1755
Robert Ruler Clive established the English Domain in India.
29-Sep-1836
Office of Business and Industry was laid out in Madras.
29-Sep-1906
Cheju Ram, a social worker and teacher, was born in Munawar in Chamber.
29-Sep-1907
Labor MP James Keir Hardy alleged that Britain was running India 'the way the Czar ran Russia'.
29-Sep-1914
German cruiser Emden bombards Madras.
29-Sep-1914
The Japanese ship 'Kamagata Maru' carrying Indian revolutionaries arrived near Calcutta from Vancouver.
29-Sep-1930
Ramnath Baburao Kenny, cricketer (batted in 5 Test matches for India in 1950s), born in Bombay.
29-Sep-1932
Muslim social reformer Hamid Dalwai is born.
29-Sep-1942
British police shot 72-year-old woman Matangini Hazra of Tamluk town in Midnipur district while she was leading a flag-carrying procession in Tamluk's August movement.
29-Sep-1959
Aarti Saha has successfully crossed the English Channel. She is the first Asian woman to achieve this feat.
29-Sep-1964
A thousand people died when the reservoir burst.
29-Sep-1970
Union Carbide India Limited in Bombay set up a sewage water reclamation plant for commercial use in India.
29-Sep-1971
More than 10,000 people have been killed by cyclones and tidal waves in the Bay of Bengal.
29-Sep-1977
India and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to share the water of the Ganges River.
29-Sep-1981
The Delhi-Srinagar Indian Airlines Boeing 737 flight was boarded by five Khalistan activists of Dal Khalsa International in Lahore, Pakistan. There were 117 passengers on board, 66 of whom were released after reaching Lahore.
29-Sep-1988
1988 Nobel Peace Prize for UN peacekeeping forces.
29-Sep-1990
The central government will adopt a three-pronged strategy to create 30 lakh additional jobs outside the public sector over the next five years.
29-Sep-1991
Popular singer of 'Agra Gharana' Ustad Yunus Hussain Khan passed away.
29-Sep-1992
Andhra Chief Minister Janardhan Reddy resigned.
29-Sep-1992
Foreign exchange rules were relaxed for a wide range of purposes.
29-Sep-1992
Ramesh Krishnan and Leander Paes beat Britain (4-1) in Davis Cup tennis, taking India to the World 16 Nations round.
29-Sep-1993
JD, JD(A) and SJP have come together to fight the BJP in the assembly elections.
29-Sep-1993
Establishment of National Human Rights Commission.
29-Sep-1994
Cable Television Regulation Ordinance promulgated.
29-Sep-1994
Gulf countries suspend Indian flights due to plague epidemic.
29-Sep-1996
Water was released from the Krishna River (AP) for Madras.
29-Sep-1997
Spain's Crown Prince Felipe de Bourbon on a visit to India.
29-Sep-1997
IRS-1D, the fourth Indian remote sensing satellite, was successfully launched by the country's first operational Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-CI from Sriharikota. With this launch, India becomes a member of the exclusive club of countries capable of launching heavy class satellites.
29-Sep-1998
ISRO successfully launched its largest sounding rocket, Rohini (RH-560 MK, 11 total payload, 127 kg).
29-Sep-1999
Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh met Pakistan's Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz at the SAARC ministerial level meeting.
29-Sep-2000
A special court in former Prime Minister P.V. found guilty Narasimha Rao and her then cabinet colleague Butta Singh in the JMM MP bribery case. Nine others got the benefit of the doubt.
29-Sep-2000
India lost to Britain in the fifth and sixth place play-offs in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics.
29-Sep-2000
Tata Ramchandra Prasad will be the next Cabinet Secretary.
29-Sep-2000
The Rayudu Award was given to former Indian cricket captain Lt. Col. Hemu Adhikari.
29-Sep-2000
The Appellate Authority stayed the BIFR order allowing the closure of Bharat Gold Mines Limited, KGF, Karnataka for industrial and financial restructuring.
29-Sep-2000
The government increased the prices of petroleum products by reducing import and excise duty on crude oil, diesel and motor spirit (petrol).
29-Sep-2000
Union Minister of State for Agriculture S.B.P.B.K. Satyanarayana Rao resigned from the cabinet.
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