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Historical Event on 8/29/1975
Adinath Lahiri, leading geologist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/6/1979 | Rohini-200, first monsoon experimental rocket, launched from Thumba. |
| 10/24/1938 | Farooq Rehmany Mohammad, journalist, social reformer and political worker, was born at Bandipur. |
| 3/23/1923 | Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Sukkur, Sind. He was held for removing of fishplates which caused derailment of British Wagon. |
| 2/26/1984 | Satellite Insat 1-B dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. |
| 10/9/1949 | The Territorial Army of India inaugurated by the Governor General. |
| 3/24/1984 | Dilraj Singh, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Vancouver, Canada. |
| 7/12/1674 | Chhatrapati Shivaji signed a friendship treaty with East India Company. |
| 4/5/1908 | Babu Jagjivan Ram, valiant freedom fighter, was born in Chandwa village in Bhojpur, Bihar. He held many prominent ministerial portfolios such as Communications Minister (1952-56), Railway Minister (1956-62), Food and Agriculture Minister (1967-70) and Defence Minister (1970-74). After 1977, he became the Deputy Prime Minister (Defence) in Janta regime. Thereafter, he established Congress (J). His uninterrupted representation in the Parliament from 1936 to 1986 is a world record. This day is commemorated as ""Samta Diwas"". |
| 9/7/1887 | Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj, editor and master, was born at Dhamrai in Dhaka now in Bangladesh. |
| 9/10/1920 | Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal. |
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