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Historical Event on 3/29/1989

Central Institute of Fisheries Education gets the distinction of becoming the first Fisheries University in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/21/1999B. R. Chopra, filmmaker, gets the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
4/20/1989Launching of IRBM `Agni' fails.
1/7/1928Rajindranath, cricketer (4 stumpings in his only Test for India), was born at Amritsar.
6/20/1994Anti-Pakistan slogans rent the air in Jammu & Kashmir against the killing of Quazi Nissar Ahmed, Mirwaiz of South Kashmir and a famous religious Kashmiri leader who was gunned down by Pak-aided terrorists.
12/25/1846Swati Tirunal Ramavarma passed away.
1/29/1853Madhusudan Rao, modern writer in Oria language, was born.
2/27/1996Suresh Kalmadi, Minister of State for Railways, presents vote-on-account railway budget; 1995-96 Economic Survey shows 6.3\% growth in GDP; 20\% interim relief for newspaper employees announced by govt.
9/2/1918Datta Deshmukh, water expert and President of `Lalnishan Party', was born.
5/9/1981Durga Bai Deshmukh passed away at Hyderabad. She was a social reformer, freedom fighter, planner, administrator, educationist and parliamentarian. She worked for peace, social welfare and for betterment of the downtrodden.
11/27/1999BJP suspends former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh from the primary membership of the Party for defying Mr. Vajpayee.