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Historical Event on 4/29/1947

Abolition of ""untouchability"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1995Raman Lamba & Ravi Sehgal score 464 for 1st wicket for Delhi.
8/29/1959India sends troops to Tibet border to block the Chinese.
10/15/1943Baba Kanshi Ram, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away.
5/29/1906Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay.
3/20/1920Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, was born at Satara. Her name is closely attached with freedom movement via Bombay Radio, as she and Babubhai Prasad and Vitthalbhai Zaveri founded this Radio and started motivating people of India with their telecasts.
4/8/1953Walchand Hirachand, great Industrialist, passed away.
5/12/1952Washington welcomes its first female ambassador, India's Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.
1/24/1994Singapore PM Goh Chok Tong arrives in New Delhi on a state visit.
10/29/2000Jitendra Prasada, senior Congress leader, files nomination papers for the party presidential polls setting the stage for a contest against the incumbent, Ms. Sonia Gandhi.
8/25/1992Veerappa Moily, Karnataka minister, stripped of Education portfolio.