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Historical Event on 7/29/1911
Mohan Bagan became the first Indian football team to win the I.F.A. Shield.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/25/2000 | The Government awards Padma Vibhushan to R.K. Narayan, Dr.M.S. Gill; Padma Bhushan for Rajnikant and Padmashri for A.R. Rehman. |
| 6/1/1930 | Baba Adhav was born. |
| 10/15/1918 | Shirdi ke Saibaba' better known as 'Saibaba' passed away at Shirdi near Nashik, Maharashtra. He was around 70. Born in a Brahmin family at Patri village in Hyderabad, he was saint to all caste and creed people. |
| 4/18/1916 | Iyyer G. Subramaniam, Congress leader, passed away. |
| 8/2/1987 | Geet Sethi retains the World Amateur Billiards title. |
| 4/30/1992 | Import duty on gold halved; minor concessions in direct taxes. |
| 5/10/1910 | Robert Koch, nobel laureate, died of an heart attack. |
| 2/25/1982 | J. K. Irani, cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests for India 1947-48), passed away. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 2/13/1968 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee elected President of the All India Jan Sangha. |
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