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Historical Event on 9/29/2000
A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs' bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/7/1917 | Ram Subhagsingh, great politician and former Rail Minister, was born. |
| 7/1/1879 | Post Card of one paisa was started in India by the Post and Telegraph Department. |
| 10/9/1994 | Kamal Bose, great photographer, died. |
| 3/27/1992 | India signs Friendship Treaty with Ukraine. |
| 4/10/1880 | C.Y. Chintamani, renowned journalist, was born. |
| 1/15/1919 | Ahmed Mohammad Mamsa, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1963-73, was born at Mumbai. |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
| 8/4/1929 | Kishor Kumar Ganguly, well known singer, was born at Khandava. He is also rememberd as a comic actor, director and musician. |
| 4/10/1995 | Morarji Ranchhodji Desai, first non-Congress Prime Minister of India (1977-79) and Chief Minister of Bombay, passed away at the age of 99. He was awarded with Bharat Ratna. |
| 5/14/1995 | Major train accident near Salem when KK Express collides with goods train killing 51 people. |
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