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Historical Event on 8/29/1993

Tamil refugees leave Madras for Sri Lanka apparently on their own free will.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/12/1947Gandhiji addresses Congress Working Committee.
7/27/1910Bande Ali Khan, great singer of `Beenkar' and `Kirana Gharana', passed away.
7/27/19987 Hindus are gunned down in two Doda villages of Jammu and Kashmir.
3/11/1997Chennai police seize a large quantity of powerful explosives and arrest two Muslim fundamentalists.
10/26/1943Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.
5/5/1932Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, passed away.
7/25/1813First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed.
1/6/1987Establishment of 'Maharashtra Journalist Fund' Trust.
12/17/2000The 13-day nationwide postal strike called off.
11/23/1919Sitaram Mahadeo Bapat, teacher and author, was born at Miraj in district Sangli.