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Historical Event on 8/29/1974
Lokdal Party established under the presidency of Chaudhary Charansingh.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/1/1967 | Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory. |
| 12/22/1966 | U.S. announces allocation of 900,000 tons of grain to fight famine in India. |
| 9/30/1996 | Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Sri Lankan social scientist, received the Gandhi Peace Prize 1996. |
| 12/13/1999 | The Railways announces concessions for senior citizens, students upto Class X and the poor. |
| 7/5/1984 | Indian Airlines airbus hijacked, lands in Lahore. |
| 7/19/1949 | Raja of Tehri Garhwal announces merger with Indian Union. |
| 5/2/1930 | Riots break out in Amritsar. |
| 9/24/1992 | Union Labour Minister announces a new export-oriented emigration policy in place of the regulatory one. |
| 10/27/1907 | Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay died. |
| 8/18/1995 | Parvati Giri, also called the Little Mother Teresa, died in Orissa. She was 69. She was a social worker and had taken part during the Quit India movement. |
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