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Historical Event on 4/29/1947

Abolition of ""untouchability"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/20/1915Gandhiji founded Satyagraha Ashram (later known as Sabarmati Ashram after the name of the river) at Ahmedabad.
4/2/1994Ravi Naik sworn in CM.
1/8/1992Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent.
10/25/1971National Science and Technology Committee established.
2/7/1992Shalki', the first submarine designed in India, joined Indian Navy.
1/21/1969First India built electronic digital computer commissioned.
10/30/1889Acharya Narendra Deo, educationist, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Sitapur, U.P.
5/11/1987President's rule imposed in Punjab.
5/8/1997Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
10/10/197761 people died in an accident between a passenger train and a freight train at Naini.