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Historical Event on 8/29/1947
A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/21/1996 | Sanjay Thapar of the IAF (leader) becomes first Indian to parachute down to geometric North pole and unfurl the flag. |
| 12/29/1953 | The States Reorganisation Commission. |
| 10/20/1990 | Kona Prabhakar Rao, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
| 4/6/1955 | Vinayak Maharaj Masurkar, great Samarth Saint, died. |
| 9/16/1954 | The Lok Sabha adopted a clause in the Special Marriage Bill providing for divorce by consent. |
| 3/30/1994 | G-15 summit in New Delhi decides to set up a trade panel. |
| 1/31/1995 | ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997). |
| 11/5/1931 | M. G. Subramaniam, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1983-84, was born in Karnataka. |
| 9/24/1938 | Piloo Dara Reporter, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-87, was born in Mumbai. He was the first ever test umpire to be invited in a foreign country along with V. K. Ramaswamy also of India. |
| 12/20/1998 | Dr. B. V. Raman (86), a reputed astrologer, dies in Bangalore following a cardiac arrest. He was the Editor of The Astrological Magazine. |
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