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Historical Event on 6/29/1998

Government decides to grant full statehood for Delhi and create three new States namely Uttaranchal, Vananchal and Chattisgarh.

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2/17/1976New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India.
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9/7/1996First phase of J & K Assembly elections.
12/6/1907Revolutionaries looted Chingaripota station.
8/17/1761William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people.
9/24/1934Arvind Laxman Apte, right-hand batsman, was born in Mumbai.
5/18/1775Warren Hastings expressed doubt of hanging Nandkumar.
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2/1/1969Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta.