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Historical Event on 6/29/1909
Pandit Motilal, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/24/1914 | Janardan Swami was born. |
| 12/16/1999 | Bill on Cyber law is introduced in the Lok Sabha. |
| 3/14/1931 | First Indian talkie film 'Alam Ara' released at Majestic Cinema, Bombay. Directed by Ardeshir Irani, the film was 11,152 ft. long and was produced by Imperial Film Co., Bombay and beared censored No. 10043 on March 11. The most remarkable thing about this film was birth of sound in Indian films, it came with a bang and quickly displaced the silent movies and brought revolutionary changes in the whole set up of the industry. |
| 10/2/1906 | Raja Ravi Verma died at Attingal near Trivandrum, Kerala. He is remembered for his artistic work in 'Ram Panchayatan', 'Vishwamitra-Menaka', 'Shakuntala writing a letter', 'Shiv Parvati'. A commemorative stamp was issued by the Postal Department on April 29, 1971 in his honour. |
| 1/5/1995 | Jitendra Prasad succeeds N.D. Tiwari as UPCC-I chief. |
| 2/16/1997 | Tribal militants kill 21 persons in Tripura. |
| 10/17/1997 | Prime Minister lays foundation stone of the Science City being set up at Jalandhar, Punjab. |
| 2/1/1881 | Cambridge Missionaries founded St. Stephen's College in Delhi. |
| 9/7/1995 | Mohammed Yousef Jameel, BBC stringer and special correspondent of The Asian Age, died in a parcel bomb explosion in Srinagar. |
| 11/9/1960 | Subroto Mukherji, first Air Chief Marshall of Indian Air Force, suddenly died. |
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