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Historical Event on 3/29/1849

Maharaj Dulip Singh left the throne of Punjab that once belonged to his late father Ranjit Singh and was then occupied by the East India Company. The Britishers had captured it after defeating the Sikh Army at Amritsar.

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4/16/1959Raurkela Iron Project's first furnace started functioning.
2/4/1944Japanese attack Indian Seventh Army at Burma
11/11/1958Inauguration of 'Indian', first one in Indian Explosive Ltd's factory at Gomia.
10/19/1983Union Government takes over the management of 13 textile undertakings in Bombay; marathon strike in cotton textile industry ends.
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
3/24/1992Congress (I) strength goes up by six seats in the Rajya Sabha on account of biennial polls.
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.
6/25/1888Lord Louis Mountbatten, British politician, was born.
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