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Historical Event on 3/29/1914
Sudhir Gupta, famous Hindi poet and educationist, was born in Kalasgram, Bangladesh.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/8/1930 | Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 6/1/1992 | Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Academy established at Satara. |
| 7/19/1993 | Girilal Jain, senior journalist, passed away. |
| 12/20/1999 | Win Chadha ready to come to India to face trial in the Bofors case. |
| 9/18/1992 | Andhra government's order of setting up 12 private medical colleges quashed by a full bench of the High Court. |
| 10/5/1989 | Dalai Lama was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize (1989). |
| 5/22/1991 | Sonia unanimously elected Congress President by the Working Committee. She, however, declined the offer. |
| 9/3/1767 | Colonel Smith was defeated in the battle of Changama that took place between the combined forces of Nizam and Hyder Ali and the British army. This was the first war of Mysore. The British concluded a humiliating peace with Hyder Ali of Mysore. |
| 4/2/1970 | Privy purses and special privileges of former Indian rulers abolished. |
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