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Historical Event on 6/29/1999
An Indian High Commissioner member N. R. Doraiswamy is beaten up by Pakistani intelligence operatives.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/20/1888 | 246 reported killed by an hail storm in Moradabad, India. |
| 4/12/1936 | Nehru urges Socialism for India. |
| 10/1/1958 | Metric System of weights was introduced in India. |
| 8/25/1963 | Allama Mashriqi, Muslim leader, passed away. |
| 12/5/1946 | Dada Maharaj Satarkar passed away. |
| 7/9/1996 | A Delhi court summoned former Prime Minister Narsimha Rao to face trial as an accused in the Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case in which godman Chandraswami was already facing trial. |
| 8/15/1872 | Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry. |
| 12/15/1997 | Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University. |
| 10/13/1911 | Ashok Kumar Ganguly, famous film actor, was born. He is the recipient of Dada Saheb Phalke Award. |
| 11/14/1993 | Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, who quit JD, joins BJP. |
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