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Historical Event on 8/29/1997

B.M. Sumavathi creats national record in heptathlon in the Federation Cup athletics.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/24/1992Milan Kumar Banerjee appointed Attorney General.
3/17/1882Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern Marathi language, passed away.
11/5/1976Lok Sabha votes to extend its own life by another year.
8/25/1960Olympics opened at Rome.
1/27/1972V. S. Sarvate (Tatya Saheb), great revolutionary writer, passed away.
10/1/1978In the Child Marriage Act, minimum age for marriage was raised to 21 year for males and 18 years for females.
5/2/1907Riots break out in Rawalpindi and East Bengal, spreading to the Punjab.
7/7/1943Rasbehari Bose handed over the command of 'Azad Hind Fauz' to Netaji Subhashchandra Bose at Singapore.
8/6/1925Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
7/8/199125 tonnes of gold moved to London from India to raise $ 200 million loan.