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Historical Event on 7/29/1904
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata, president of Tata industrial group, was born in Paris, France. He was the first pilot of India to be conferred with the Bharat Ratna.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/18/1950 | Batubhai Umarwadia, father of Gujrati literature's English type and drama writer, passed away. |
| 1/15/1919 | Ahmed Mohammad Mamsa, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1963-73, was born at Mumbai. |
| 9/26/1932 | Gandhiji breaks fast on Indian government's acceptance of his demand regarding Harijans. |
| 9/5/1904 | Bhalchandra Pandharinath Bahirat, editor and expert of Saint literature, was born. |
| 9/14/1971 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died. |
| 10/25/1990 | Captain Sangma, first Chief Minister of Meghalaya, died. |
| 8/4/1979 | Indian Airlines AVRO-748 crashes in to a hill near Bombay. |
| 11/15/1989 | Test debut of Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Yunus at Karachi. |
| 10/18/2000 | Supreme Court gives the nod for construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river. |
| 1/23/1897 | Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader and freedom fighter, was born at Cuttack. At the age of 23, he was ranked fourth in the I.C.S. Examination in London and fought against the British with his Azad Hind Fauj in the second World War. |
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