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Historical Event on 11/29/1989

Voters oust Gandhi and Congress party

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/9/199881 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone.
1/25/1880Brahmo Samaj of modernisation and fraternity amongst religions Nababidhan Keshab Chandra Sen introduced.
5/18/1992President R. Venkataraman reaches Beijing.
10/2/1997At least 50 Pakistan soldiers were killed and several injured in a retaliatory firing by Indian troops in Nowgam, Uri and Kupwara sectors. Firing had been intermittent along LoC.
4/5/1984Rakesh Sharma,Squadron leader, becomes India's first spaceman when he is launched aboard Soyuz T-11 of Soviet Union.
11/14/1993Dr. Manibhai Desai, great Gandhian and social worker, passed away.
8/3/1939Apoorva Kumar Sengupta, cricketer (1959 Test - India vs WI, without distinction), was born in Lucknow.
2/27/1996Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit.
10/5/1997Dr. Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman to become an astronaut. (year 1997 or Oct. 5, 1998)
9/29/1906Chhajju Ram, social worker and teacher, was born at Manawar, Chhamb.