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Historical Event on 1/29/1983
Piloo Mody, veteran Parliament member and senior leader of Janata Party, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/28/1926 | Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service. |
| 7/6/2000 | India, Nepal sign agreement to set up a specialist joint unit to counter terrorism and share information about criminals operating along the border. |
| 7/21/1999 | The Janata Dal splits under Deve Gowda and Sharad Yadav. The latter group to support NDA. |
| 5/6/1952 | Maria Montessori, pioneer in mordern education, who spent almost 10 years in India, died in Noordwijk aan Zee. The principles and techiques advocated by her are also applied to the education of handicapped children and adult education. |
| 10/1/1958 | Metric System of weights was introduced in India. |
| 10/26/1950 | Mother Teresa founded Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India. |
| 4/11/1937 | Ramnath Krishnan, well known Indian Tennis player, was born. |
| 4/26/1990 | V. R. P. Menon, an Air Force Engineer, broke the world record in Chandigargh. |
| 12/27/1998 | Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen unveils his plans to set up a charity trust with the award money for development of education and health in India and Bangladesh. |
| 5/1/1958 | Bell, 47 G3, the flight was upgraded to a helicopter unit with a Sqn Ldr as its Commanding Officer. |
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