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Historical Event on 5/29/1947
Establishment of Indian Standard Institution.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/12/1995 | Congress party loses India national election. |
| 10/16/1952 | Pakistan's first Test vs India starts at Delhi. |
| 12/24/1999 | Koneru Humpy won the under-12 boys' title and P. Harikrishna won the Under-14 boys' title at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Ahmedabad. |
| 8/22/1877 | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka. |
| 7/8/1918 | Montagu - Chelmsford Report was published. This report was prepared to reform the legislature of India. This report was made by Edwin Montagu who was the Secretary of States for India and Lord Chelmsford, who was the Viceroy. |
| 3/4/2000 | Geeta Mukherjee (76), veteran communist leader, died of a massive heart attack in New Delhi. Popularly known as 'Geetadi', she won every Lok Sabha election from Panskura in West Bengal since 1980. |
| 12/20/1999 | Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party Chief, opposes signing of CTBT. |
| 9/9/1949 | Hindi was accepted as the national language of India. |
| 10/5/1989 | Dalai Lama was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize (1989). |
| 12/11/1987 | Rajiv Government defeats the first ever no-confidence motion. |
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