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Historical Event on 12/29/1983

Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* vs West Indies.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/22/1903Shankar Das Banerji, lawyer and politician, was born at Calcutta.
4/1/1956Companies Act of 1913 was revised and Indian Companies Act of 1956 came into force.
7/2/1997Screening for Hepatitis C made mandatory all over India.
4/20/1954Panchsheel agreement between China and India.
1/1/1988On the Christan New Year Day, Maharashtra became the first state to launch a public campaign against smoking.
4/15/1919British troops kill 400 Indians, who were demonstrating against the British rule at Amritsar for the forced marshall law on Punjab.
10/9/2000The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it.
5/17/1873Hindi daily 'Bharat Mitra' started from Calcutta.
11/16/1991Madhukar Karekar, famous journalist, died
5/1/1996Motilal Vohra, U.P. Governor, resigns (hawala case).