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Historical Event on 5/29/1906

Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/12/1946Viceroy announces invitation to Congress to form provisional Government.
10/16/1942Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India.
8/1/1952Nationalised Airways at Safdarjung, New Delhi inaugurated by Nehru.
5/27/1952United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party - National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as leader.
1/11/1858Shridhar Pathak, famous Hindi poet, was born.
7/24/1997Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.
5/19/1979Pandit Hajari Prasad Dwivedi passed away.
8/1/1879Achyut Balwant Kolhatkar, famous litterateur and journalist, was born.
10/18/1928Roshan Harshadlal "Deepak" Shodhan, cricketer (century on Test debut for India), was born in Ahmedabad.
1/26/1981Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 vs Australia at Adelaide Oval.