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Historical Event on 3/29/1978
Jayasinghrao Mansinghrao Ghorpade, cricketer, 8 Tests for India and 229 runs, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/4/1829 | Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre) |
| 1/30/1947 | Gandhiji leaves Patna for Delhi. Mountbatten, new Viceroy, arrives in Delhi. |
| 5/4/1923 | Mrinal Sen, famous film director, was born. |
| 9/29/1992 | Andhra CM Janardhana Reddy resigned. |
| 4/25/2000 | West Bengal police nab Belal alias Lalu Mian, the suspected mastermind behind the hijacking of IC-814 IA flight to Kandahar last December, from a hideout in North 24 Parganas district. |
| 2/20/1929 | K. B. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-84, was born at Tamil Nadu. |
| 4/1/1920 | S. Bhattacharya, cricket Test Umpire for 2 tests from 1963-70, was born in Delhi. |
| 10/6/1992 | Z. R. Ansari, former central minister, died. |
| 10/1/1995 | Hastimal Firodia, astrologer and industrialist, died. |
| 11/3/1900 | Sagarmal Gopa, freedom fighter, was born. |
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