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Historical Event on 7/29/1988

Syed Modi, 28-year national badminton champion, was shot dead at K. D. Singh Stadium in Lucknow.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/11/1996Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba arrives in India for a week-long visit.
4/16/1997Govt. orders foreign and domestic airlines to install air safety systems by the end of 1998. Aircraft with more than 30 seats that do not have Airborne Collision Avoidance System and transponders not to be allowed into Indian airpace from 1/1/99.
12/5/2000Postal staff go on a nationwide indefinite strike which the Government termed as 'illegal'.
2/19/1919Arvind Gokhle, great Marathi story writer, was born.
5/28/1978The kiss comes to the Hindi screen in 'Love Sublime,' and is seen as a sign of what the govt. calls greater 'creative freedom,' after Indira Gandhi's authoritarian rule at Bombay.
1/14/1948First issue of Marathi daily newspaper 'Loksatta' was published.
9/18/1992Andhra government's order of setting up 12 private medical colleges quashed by a full bench of the High Court.
8/9/1971Vinodnand Jha, former Chief Minister of Bihar, died.
8/9/1971Saint Francis Xavier, Jesuit priest, Spanish missionary teaching in India and Japan, was born in the Spanish kingdom of Navarre.
11/3/1605Salim renamed himself as Jahangir and became the king of Agra.