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Historical Event on 8/29/1947
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar became the President of Constitution Council.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/12/1959 | Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President, came to India. |
| 1/12/1863 | Swami Vivekananda (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta)(1863-1902), dynamic renaissance missionary to West, catalyst of Hindu revival in India and social reformer, was born at Calcutta. |
| 8/2/1994 | Opposition quits Parliament panels, boycotts sessions. |
| 7/23/1927 | Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station. |
| 4/10/1999 | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village. |
| 5/1/1998 | The Konkan Railway running for 760-km is dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This was an extention from Ratnagiri. |
| 10/9/1968 | Olympic Games open in Mexico City. |
| 2/2/1788 | Pitt's Regulatory Act was was introduced to modify the Indian Administration and put further controls on Government of India after the 1784 Bill. |
| 4/15/1992 | D. T. Lakdawala, former member of Planning Commission, passed away. |
| 10/4/1997 | Two top executives of Turkish firm 'Karsan', accused in Rs. 133 crore urea import scam case, were remanded to police custody. |
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