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Historical Event on 12/29/1844
W.C. Bonerjee, first President of the Indian National Congress, was born in Kidderpore, Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 3/1/1916 | Habib Rahman, great Architect, was born at Calcutta. |
| 2/5/1986 | Laxmanrao Sardesai, famous Marathi and Konkani litterateur, passed away. |
| 12/31/1966 | Bishen Singh Bedi made his Test Cricket debut vs West Indies at Calcutta. |
| 7/14/1963 | Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, passed away. |
| 9/1/1913 | Snehangshu Kanta Acharya, politician, social reformer, lawyer and athelete, was born. |
| 10/3/1906 | Govind Vinayak Devansthali, Sanskrit researcher, dictionary creator, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay. |
| 4/9/1986 | First University in India devoted to hygiene established at Vijaywada. |
| 12/11/1968 | Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology. |
| 6/8/1915 | Geeta Rahasya', written by Lokmanya Tilak, published. |
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