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Historical Event on 12/29/1975

D.K. Barooah elected Congress President.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/23/1931Sharad Joshi, famous Hindi poet, playwright and journalist, was born.
11/5/1961Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York. This was the first ocassion when an Indian Prime Minister went to United States.
2/10/1916Revolutionary Sohanlal Pathak hanged.
2/18/1983Violence between Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Singhalese in Sri Lanka marks beginning of Tamil rebellion by Tiger freedom fighters demanding an independent nation called Eelam. Prolonged civil war results.
7/6/1787Robert founded Indian Botanic Garden near Calcutta by Kyd on 273 acres of land.
11/22/1873Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), was born.
3/11/1997Chennai police seize a large quantity of powerful explosives and arrest two Muslim fundamentalists.
11/3/1984Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated.
3/23/1942Second World War was turning against the British and they needed the help of the Indians. So Prime Minister Churhill sent a delegation under Sir Stafford Cripps (Cripps Mission) to hold talks with the Indian leaders on the future of the subcontient in UK, which could not take place because of the non-cooperation movement and they left after a fortnight. They submitted their report in April 1942 which was rejected by the Congress and Muslim League.
11/7/1862Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision.