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Historical Event on 4/29/1997
R. N. Malhotra, 71, former RBI Governor, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/10/1901 | Formal inauguration of the new North-West Frontier Province created out of the Punjab. |
| 1/16/1990 | All Governors asked to resign. |
| 10/6/1893 | Meghnad N. Saha, astrophysicist, was born. In 1920, he developed the 'Thermal Ionization Equation', which has remained fundamental in all works on stellar atmospheres. This equation has been widely applied to the interpretation of stellar spectra, which are characteristic of the chemical composition of the light source. |
| 4/13/1890 | Ramchandra Gopal Torne (Dadasaheb), film director, was born. |
| 3/24/1944 | Manmohan Singh, famous economist and Finance Minister of India, was born. |
| 1/1/1950 | Inauguration of National Chemical Laboratory at Mumbai. |
| 10/26/1961 | Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October. |
| 11/5/1929 | Narottam Morarjee, great social reformer and the architect of the modern Indian Shipping, died. |
| 2/1/1881 | Cambridge Missionaries founded St. Stephen's College in Delhi. |
| 12/3/1984 | 3,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India. |
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