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Historical Event on 1/29/1996

S.R. Bommai was replaced by Laloo Prasad Yadav as Janata Dal president.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/16/2000Kalyan Banerjee becomes the first Indian to head the Rotary Foundation, one of the richest bodies of the Rotary International.
7/31/1658Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor.
4/2/1702Balaji Vishwanath Bhat, first Peshwa, passed away.
1/31/1948Cities swept by riots in wake of Gandhi murder.
10/17/1999Dingko Singh won the bantam weight gold while Services' Ramanand was adjudged the best boxer in the National Boxing championship which concluded in Shimla.
1/14/1993The Supreme Court absolves Railway Minister Jaffer Sharief of corruption charges in the wagon deal with Asea Brown Boveri.
7/9/1999Ashok Mitra (82), noted writer, academician and former bureaucrat, died in Calcutta.
11/11/1994The Supreme Court stays Karnataka Reservation Act.
11/25/2000Karnataka and Tamil Nadu Governments agree on a ""unified command'' for the STF operations against Veerappa
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.