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Historical Event on 9/29/1964
1,000 people were killed as a reservoir burst.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/16/1901 | Shripad Ramchandra Tikekar, journalist and critic, was born. |
| 9/13/1997 | Grieving India lays to rest Mother Teresa in state funeral in Calcutta in which pomp and splendour is combined with religious rites. |
| 12/11/1992 | UP acquistion of land in Ayodhya quashed by Allahabad High Court. |
| 9/19/1990 | Planning Commission announces 8th Five-Year Plan proposals with a total outlay of Rs. 610,000 crore. |
| 4/16/1966 | Nandlal Bose, who established modern painting in Bengal, passed away. |
| 4/4/1971 | Pakistan reports seizure of nine Indian army vehicles. |
| 12/5/1950 | Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India. |
| 7/31/1940 | Udham Singh, fiery revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by the British Government in the Pantone Villa Jail, London. |
| 5/25/1996 | Maharashta govt. announces decision to revive Sri Krishna Commission set up to probe the 1993 Mumbai riots. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
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