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Historical Event on 8/29/1905
Major Dhyanchand was born in a Rajput family at Prayag at Uttar Pradesh. He is remembered as a Master of Hockey. India celebrates this day as National Sports Day.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/22/1991 | IMF and the World Bank decide to grant $1 billion loan to India. |
| 2/5/1991 | The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India. |
| 11/19/1970 | Bhupinder Singh Jr, cricketer (Punjab & Indian ODI batsman), was born. |
| 6/4/1903 | Gandhiji established the weekly journal ""Indian Opinion"" organised at Phoenix farm near Durban. |
| 10/1/1932 | Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years. |
| 8/29/1994 | Tusharkanti Ghosh, world famous Indian journalist, passed away. |
| 5/27/1857 | Nana Sahib was captured at Kanpur. |
| 8/20/1979 | Indian premier Charan Singh resigns. |
| 5/25/1996 | DMK-led coalition ministry headed by R.V. Janakiraman sworn in Pondicherry. |
| 12/27/1998 | Churches and missionary schools come under attack and many were injured in a fresh outbreak of communal violence in Surat and Dangs district of Gujarat even as the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad announce the stepping up of their stir against the alleged conversion of Hindus. |
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