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Historical Event on 10/29/1997

P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister, says Indian rupee will be made fully and freely convertible by year 2000.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/28/1941Netaji Subhashchandra Bose reached Berlin after his secret underground journey from Calcutta.
1/16/1995Missile carrier vessel 'Vidhrut' dedicated to nation.
4/23/1968Bade Gulam Ali Khan, famous ghazal singer, passed away.
9/5/1988The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill.
2/1/1969Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta.
12/29/1977World's biggest Drive-In theatre started screening in Bombay.
6/23/1985Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died.
12/6/1732Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of East India Company in India, was born in Churchill village of Oxfordshire in UK.
11/30/1990Admiral Laxmi Narayan Ramdas takes over as Chief of Naval Staff.
11/30/1915Venkat Apparao Gurjad, famous Telgu poet, died.