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Historical Event on 1/29/1983

Piloo Mody, veteran Parliament member and senior leader of Janata Party, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/25/1999India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
10/10/1970Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.
9/27/1925Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh was established.
9/1/1988Fatte Singrao Gaekwad of Baroda, former Member of Parliament, passed away.
7/31/1996Supreme Court exempts Rao from appearing in CMM court personally.
5/5/1942Henry Albert John Gidney, great leader and politician, died at New Delhi.
7/2/1997Screening for Hepatitis C made mandatory all over India.
4/25/1998India protests against Pakistan raising the Kashmir issue at the first SAARC Information Ministers conference in Dhaka.
4/4/1786In British Parliament, Berk alleged 11 corruption charges against Indian Governor General Warren Hastings.