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Historical Event on 1/29/1998

Suicide by more than 50 farmers reported in the Telangana region in the past few days.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/2/198432 people died in a bomb explosion at Meenambakkam Airport.
5/29/1967First blowdown of the 4 ft trisonic tunnel; the tunnel with all auxiliary facilities such as compressor system, electrical sub-station, design office and model fabrication shop is formally set up and commissioned by National Aeronautical Laboratory.
12/19/1988Umashankar Joshi, Gyanpeeth awardee and Gujrathi poet, died.
4/23/1938Viceroy Lord Linlithgow opens the hydro-electric scheme at Malakand.
10/20/1947First battle between India and Pakistan.
1/18/1999Prof. Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, is selected for Bharat Ratna.
7/14/1963Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, passed away.
2/4/1974Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924.
1/4/1994Rahul Dev Burman, famous music director better known as 'Pancham Da', died at the age of 56.
3/12/1913Yashvantrao Balvantrao Chavan, first Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born.