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Historical Event on 3/29/1963
Siyaramsharan Gupt, great autor of Hindi language, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/29/1924 | Ezra Laderman, NYC, composer (Jacob & the Indians), was born. |
| 3/10/1954 | The history of 104 HU, the most prestigious and the oldest Helicopter Unit of the IAF, is studded with more than four decades of glorious past and yeomen service rendered to the country. One-O-Four was raised as Helicopter Flight at Palam on 10th March 1954. |
| 5/25/1877 | Sir John Lawrence--passenger steamer of McLean & Co. of Calcutta--sank near the coastline of Orrisa in a storm. This ship carried 732 passengers. |
| 8/9/1969 | Ochterlony Memorial in Calcutta was renamed as 'Shahid Minar'. |
| 5/15/1998 | Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro, receives the 1998 Polar music award. |
| 12/30/1803 | East India Comapny captured Dehli, Agra and Bharooch. |
| 9/9/1896 | Shyam Lal Gupt 'Parshad', freedom fighter, social worker and Padamshree awardee, was born in Narwal village near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 6/10/1955 | Prakash Padukone, internationally famous Badminton player, was born. |
| 10/28/1977 | Shantiprasad Jain, industrialist, died. |
| 11/9/1999 | Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour. |
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