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Historical Event on 3/29/1970
Union Government revises the percentage of reservation in service for SC\STs from 12.5\% to 15\%. Orders to be effective from 25 March.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/3/1919 | Hari Narayan Apte, famous Marathi novelist, passed away. |
| 6/12/1970 | Gopinath Kaviraj, Padmavibhushan awardee and critic, passed away. |
| 5/9/1919 | Ram Kumar Gupta, great industrialist, was born at Delhi. |
| 8/15/1990 | Uttar Maharashtra University was established. |
| 9/26/1911 | Prat Kumar Sinha, cricket Test empire for 2 tests from 1948-53, was born in Bengal. |
| 8/20/1997 | Premananda, self-styled godman, sentenced by Pudukottai district and sessions court to life imprisonment for two terms and a fine of Rs. 66.4 lakhs for rape of 13 inmates of his ashram and murder of a male inmate. |
| 8/1/1997 | Nitin Mongia wins Laser standard in sailing championship in Hyderabad. |
| 7/3/1991 | Kailash Sethi was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 22-07-1996. |
| 4/18/1859 | Tatya Tope (his original name was Ramchandra Raghunath Tope) a leader of Sepoy Mutiny, was captured in April, courtmarshalled and hanged at Sivpuri for 1857 Indian Mutiny. |
| 6/5/1974 | Smallpox epidemic in the country. |
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