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Historical Event on 9/29/2000
India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/25/1992 | BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven. |
| 8/14/1996 | Amrit Rai, son of Munshi Premchand, died. |
| 5/8/1962 | Ravindra Bharti University established in West Bengal. |
| 8/6/1965 | Indian troops invade Pakistan. |
| 3/17/1882 | Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern Marathi language, passed away. |
| 5/3/1896 | Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great nationalist, lawyer, freedom fighter, barrister and member of the Rajya Sabha, was born at Panniyankara in Calicut, Kerala. |
| 3/22/2000 | India's first third generation satellite 'Insat-3B' put in orbit by Europe's latest Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana. |
| 2/14/1959 | Nehru tells the International Conference on Planned Parenthood that Indian family planning efforts have not stopped population growth. |
| 1/31/1985 | Under the 52nd Constitutional Amendment, Anti-Defector Bill was passed unanimously in Lok Sabha. This avoided the Representatives of People to switch over political parties. |
| 7/5/1984 | Indian Airlines airbus hijacked, lands in Lahore. |
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