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Historical Event on 11/29/1916
Vasant Shridhar Vaidya, great industrialist, was born at Phaltan.
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| 9/22/1891 | Gangopadhyay Taraknath, famous novelist in Bengal, passed away. |
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| 2/20/1953 | India opens $ 140 mil. power system modeled after TVA. |
| 8/16/1886 | Swami Ramakrishna Paramahamsa dies at the age of 50. His real name was Gadadhar Ghatterji. An Indian mystic, leader and saint, he preached unity of religions. Swami Vivekanand was his disciple. |
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| 1/29/1997 | Supreme Court rules that water is a 'mineral'. |
| 9/30/1999 | India successfully test-fired its multi-target surface-to-air missile 'Akash'. |
| 12/23/1954 | Tito, Nehru reject plan for neutral third bloc, yet insist on peaceful co-existence. |
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