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Historical Event on 12/29/1989
Prasar Bharati Bill and Lok Pal Bill introduced in Lok Sabha.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/23/2000 | Udham Singh (72), hockey legend, died at his home town in Sansarpur (near Jalandhar). |
| 7/8/1991 | 25 tonnes of gold moved to London from India to raise $ 200 million loan. |
| 1/15/1966 | The Indian Air Force achieved equal status with the Army and possessed in excess of 70,000 personnel and was nearing its 45-squadron goal. Its composition in the autumn of 1968 included 23 fighter category squadrons, three tactical bomber squadrons, a maritime patrol squadron (with ex-Air India L. 1049G Super Constellations), 11 transport squadrons, four AOP squadrons, a number of helicopter units and a few SAM squadrons. |
| 12/25/1994 | Giani Zail Singh, former President of India, died in Chandigarh at the age of 78. |
| 8/9/1965 | Pakistan chose to persist while the Indian Army Corps on the ceasefire line got down to neutralizing the Gibraltar Force. As a first step, main infiltration routes were blocked and Pakistan was forced out of the Haji Fir bulge (known to them as Bedori). |
| 1/1/1985 | Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum. |
| 8/2/1763 | British troops once again defeated Mir Kasim in 'Giriya' battle. |
| 6/23/1895 | Kali Charan Ghosh, great Hindi writer, was born at Calcutta. |
| 11/20/1998 | Dr. Mohammed Yunus, Chairman of the Grameen Bank of Dhaka, is selected for the 1998 Indira Gandhi prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. |
| 9/17/1960 | Agreement reached with Pakistan on the distribution of the River Indus and its tributaries. |
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