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Historical Event on 1/29/1976
Parliament approves permanent government and censorship of newspapers at New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/10/1987 | Jeevan, famous Hindi film actor, died. |
| 10/25/1990 | Captain Sangma, first Chief Minister of Meghalaya, died. |
| 7/21/1977 | Bhudevchandra Basu, famous animal expert, passed away. |
| 1/30/1903 | Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta. |
| 12/30/1974 | Opening of the fifth Indian Film Festival. It was presided over by Satyajit Ray at New Delhi. |
| 11/16/1992 | Reservation, Supreme Court rejects economic criteria. |
| 1/5/1869 | Venkatesh Tirko Kulkarni, famous Kannad novelist 'Galagnath', was born. |
| 12/8/1992 | World-wide protest against Ayodhya demolition, temples burnt in Pakistan and Britain; Advani, Joshi, Singhal arrested; Nation observes 'bandh'. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
| 3/30/1913 | B. S. Soman, first Admiral of India, was born. |
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