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Historical Event on 9/29/1932
Hamid Dalwai, Muslim social reformer, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/1/1978 | India's sixth Five-Year Plan commenced. |
| 4/5/1944 | 221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site. |
| 1/8/1964 | Jack ""Murph the Surf"" Murphy, 27, and a companion were arrested in Miami as suspects in the theft of $410,000 rare gems from the American Museum of Natural History in October of last year. The world's largest sapphire, the Star of India, and eight of the other 22 stolen gems were returned to New York in an attorney's coat pocket, having been recovered in two water-logged suede pouches from a Miami bus terminal locker with the help of a third suspect. The three described themselves as ""beach boys."" Murphy is a sometimes an aquatic clown, but mainly they were notorious jewel thieves. Murphy was also accused of pistol-whipping actress Eva Gabor and stealing jewels worth $50,000 from her a year ago. |
| 11/7/1933 | Gaandhiji commences Harijan-upliftment tour. |
| 2/2/1930 | Vasudev Govind Apte, editor and dictrionay creator, passed away. |
| 12/25/1997 | India-Sri Lanka one-day cricket match at Indore abandoned after three overs owing to a bad state of the pitch, which was a rare occurance. |
| 3/19/1962 | Raja Kelkar Museum, which belonged to Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar, was opened for the people. |
| 4/14/1990 | Veena Vidwan S. Balachander passed away. |
| 11/23/1908 | Durga Das, famous social reformer and journalist, was born. |
| 1/5/1982 | C. Ramchandra (Chitalkar), famous music director, died. |
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