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Historical Event on 7/29/1876

Indian Science Congress Association was established in Bowbazar Street of Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/15/1991About 50% of the 180.3 million electorate cast their votes in the final phase of Lok Sabha elections.
4/16/1930Rioting continues in India as British police fire on mob of 10,000.
2/22/1977Emergency and 'MISSA' laws were cancelled.
4/6/1993Divya Bharati, famous Hindi film actress (Deewana), died at the age of 19.
3/1/1939Satish Kumar Sareen was born in Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan). He became the Air Chief Marshal.
1/18/1999Gul Panag (20) from Delhi was crowned Femina Miss India Universe at the Miss India 1999 beauty pageant in Pune.
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.
12/25/1991Ajit Singh expelled from the JD.
5/18/1945Bhagwat Subramaniam Chandrasekhar, cricketer (brilliant Indian leggie 1964-79), was born in Banglore. He received Arjun Award and Padmashree awards in 1972.
9/5/1793Mir Kasim lost To Britishers near Rajmahal in battle of Udaynala.