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Historical Event on 12/29/1983
Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* vs West Indies.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/7/1984 | Indian Army troops, sent to Punjab to quell Sikh violence, stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the holiest of Sikh shrines. More than 400 persons were reported killed in the assault at the shrine, including Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. |
| 3/16/1993 | Central government introduces pension scheme for 170 million EPF subscribers. |
| 12/1/1966 | Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian Union. |
| 3/17/2000 | V.C. Pande, Bihar Governor, accords sanction to the CBI to prosecute RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav in a disproportionate assets case. |
| 6/14/1991 | Punjab was declared ""disturbed area""; army deployed. |
| 6/15/1948 | Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, passed away. |
| 8/17/1761 | William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people. |
| 1/24/1994 | India sends six proposals to Pakistan to resolve bilateral problems. |
| 2/16/1994 | Military Museum established at Ahmadnagar. |
| 5/22/1953 | Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Darjeeling and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were the first to conquer the Mount Everest (World). |
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