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Historical Event on 4/29/2000
The Army institutes a high-level court of inquiry under Maj. Gen. C.B. Suku to look into the causes of the arms depot conflagration.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 9/2/1976 | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, famous marathi story writer, novelist and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away. |
| 12/20/1988 | The Constitution (62nd Amendment) Bill for reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years receives Parliamentary approval. |
| 11/28/1993 | JRD Tata, 89, passed away in Geneva. |
| 1/1/1995 | Raman Lamba & Ravi Sehgal score 464 for 1st wicket for Delhi. |
| 4/11/1997 | 10-month-old Deve Gowde govt. at the centre voted out of power. 292 voting against the motion of confidence in Lok Sabha, 158 for it, 6 abstaining. |
| 5/23/1993 | PM arrives in Tashkent. |
| 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. |
| 1/2/1960 | Raman Lamba, Cricketer was Born |
| 9/27/1972 | Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, passed away at the age of 80 at Bangalore. |
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