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Historical Event on 9/29/1971
Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000 people.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/14/1996 | Amrit Rai, son of Munshi Premchand, died. |
| 10/6/1779 | Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province, was born. |
| 8/2/1958 | Arshad Ayub, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 13 Tests between 1987-89), was born in Hydrabad. |
| 11/6/1910 | Satakopan Chandilyan Bhashyam, journalist, was born at Tirukkoilur, Madras. |
| 4/9/1993 | Lt. Gen. B.C. Joshi to be the next army chief. |
| 3/4/2000 | Geeta Mukherjee (76), veteran communist leader, died of a massive heart attack in New Delhi. Popularly known as 'Geetadi', she won every Lok Sabha election from Panskura in West Bengal since 1980. |
| 6/28/1986 | Accord with Mizo National Front; Lal Denga to be the chief minister of Mizoram. |
| 7/29/1994 | Indian army kills 27 Muslem militants. |
| 1/29/1780 | Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta . |
| 3/17/1909 | Pandit Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, educationist and internationally famed Sanskrit scholar, was born at Satara, Maharashtra. |
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