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Historical Event on 3/29/1939

Hanumant Singh, cricketer (14 Tests for India-century on debut), was born in Banswara.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
3/13/1940Michael O' Dyer, former Governor of Punjab, was shot by Udham Singh in Caxton Hall at point-blank range in full view of a large gathering in London.
8/12/1946Viceroy announces invitation to Congress to form provisional Government.
10/17/1997Prime Minister lays foundation stone of the Science City being set up at Jalandhar, Punjab.
5/26/2000In a significant development, the Government decides to allow disinvestment up to 60 per cent equity of Air India.
7/1/1996RBI reduces cash reserve ratio to 12\%.
8/21/1955Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away.
5/30/196269 killed in a bus crash near Ahmedabad.
9/3/1999India launches a new phase of military modernisation after the Kargil conflict.
7/23/1996India's admission to Asian Regional Forum was endorsed by Foreign Ministers of the group at Jakarta.