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Today’s Historical Events on September 29
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1829, 29th September: London Metropolitan Police established
1916, 29th September: John D Rockefeller became the first billionaire of the World
1917, 29th September: The first school of the Indian Education Society, King George High School, was opened at Dadar, Mumbai
1938, 29th September: The Munich conference began, attended by Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini
1941, 29th September: In the World War II, Nazis killed 33,771 Jews in Kyiv
1950, 29th September: The first automatic telephone answering machine was tested by the US Bell Telephone company
1963, 29th September: Birla galaxy launched in Kolkata, the first galaxy in Asia
1981, 29th September: A Delhi-Srinagar flight was hijacked by five Khalistan activists and was made to land in Lahore, Pakistan 66 of the 117 passengers were set free on arrival in Lahore
2008, 29th September: The Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual brought the New York Stock Exchange index down 778 in a single day The US stock market was down the most
2012, 29th September: Altamas Kabir becomes the 39th Chief Justice of India
2016, 29th September: The Indian Army conducted a “Surgical Strike” against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir
29 September in Indian History – Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on September 29
1786: Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of Mexico
1899: László Bíró, Hungarian-Argentinian journalist and inventor, invented the ballpoint pen
1901: Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize-winning Italian-American physicist He has been called the “architect of the nuclear age” and the “architect of the atomic bomb”
1925: Dr Sharad Chandra Gokhale, Indian social worker
1928: Brajesh Mishra, the first Indian National Security Advisor
1932: Mehmood, Indian comedian, film director, and producer
1932: Hamid Dalwai, a Muslim social reformer, thinker, activist, and Marathi language writer in Maharashtra, India
1943: Lech Walesa, the first democratically-elected President of Poland, winner of the Nobel Prize
1947: S H Kapadia, India’s 38th Chief Justice
1951: Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s first female president
29 September in Indian History – Death Anniversaries of famous people on September 29
855: Roman Emperor Lothar I
1560: King Gustav I of Sweden
1833: King Ferdinand VII of Spain
1913: Rudolf Diesel, a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine, and his suspicious death at sea
1925: Leon Bourgeois, French police officer, and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate
1927: Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
1987: Henry Ford II, an American businessman
2004: Balamani Amma, an Indian poet
2010: Georges Charpak, Polish-born French physicist from a Jewish family who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992
2013: S N Goenka, an Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation
2017: Tom Alter, Indian actor
29 September in Indian History – What happened in India on 29 September
29-September-1708
British East India Company and New East India company merged.
29-September-1725
Robert Clive, one of the founders of British empire in India and diplomat, was born.
29-September-1755
Robert Lord Clive founded the British empire in India.
29-September-1836
Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established in Madras.
29-September-1906
Chhajju Ram, social worker and teacher, was born at Manawar, Chhamb.
29-September-1907
Labour MP James Keir Hardie accuses UK of running India ‘like the Czar runs Russia’.
29-September-1914
German cruiser Emden shells Madras.
29-September-1914
Japanese vessel ‘Kamagata Maru’ reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries.
29-September-1930
Ramnath Baburao Kenny, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for India in 1950’s), was born in Bombay.
29-September-1932
Hamid Dalwai, Muslim social reformer, was born.
29-September-1942
The British police shot Matangini Hazra, a 72-year old woman of Tamluk town in Midnapur district, when she was leading the flag at Tamluk in August movement procession.
29-September-1959
Arati Saha successfully swam the English Channel. She was the first Asian lady to achieve the feat.
29-September-1964
1,000 people were killed as a reservoir burst.
29-September-1970
Union Carbide India Ltd in Bombay was commissioned Reclamation Plant Sewage Water of India for commercial use.
29-September-1971
Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000 people.
29-September-1977
India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water.
29-September-1981
Delhi-Srinagar Indian Airlines Boeing 737 flight was diverted to Lahore, Pakistan by five Khalistan activists of the Dal Khalsa International. On board there were 117 passengers out of which 66 were freed on arrival in Lahore.
29-September-1988
1988 Nobel Peace Prize for U.N. Peace-Keeping Forces.
29-September-1990
Central Government adopt a three-pronged strategy to create additional 30 lakh jobs outside the government sector over the next five years.
29-September-1991
Ustad Yunus Hussain Khan, famous singer of ‘Agra Gharana’, passed away.
29-September-1992
Andhra CM Janardhana Reddy resigned.
29-September-1992
Forex norms relaxed for wide range of purposes.
29-September-1992
Ramesh Krishnan and Leander Paes put India into the World round of 16 nations in the Davis Cup tennis by defeating Britain (4-1).
29-September-1993
JD, JD(A) and SJP merge to fight BJP in the assembly elections.
29-September-1993
National Human Rights Commission set up.
29-September-1994
Cable Television Regulation Ordinance issued.
29-September-1994
Gulf nations suspend Indian flights on account of plague epidemic.
29-September-1996
Water from Krishna river (AP) released for Madras.
29-September-1997
Crown Prince of Spain, Felipe de Borbon, visits India.
29-September-1997
IRS-1D, fourth Indian Remote Sensing satellite, successfully launched off by PSLV-CI, the country’s first operational polar satellite launch vehicle, from Sriharikota. With this launch, India became a member of the exclusive club of nations capable of launching the heavier class of satellites.
29-September-1998
ISRO successfully launches its largest sounding rocket, Rohini (RH-560 mk, 11 total payload, 127 kg).
29-September-1999
Jaswant Singh, External Affairs Minister, meet his Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz meet at the SAARC ministerial meeting.
29-September-2000
A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs’ bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt.
29-September-2000
India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics.
29-September-2000
Tata Ramachandra Prasad to be the next Cabinet Secretary.
29-September-2000
Nayudu award goes to former India cricket captain Lt. Col. Hemu Adhikari.
29-September-2000
The Appellate Authority of the Industrial and Financial Reconstruction stays the order of the BIFR permitting winding up of Bharat Gold Mines Limited, KGF, Karnataka.
29-September-2000
The Government raises the prices of petroleum products across- the-board while cutting import and excise duties on crude oil, diesel and motor spirit (petrol).
29-September-2000
Union Minister of State for Agriculture S.B.P.B.K. Satyanarayana Rao quits the from Cabinet.