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Historical Event on 8/29/1947

A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/23/1774British Commander Colonel Chapman defeated Rohilla's army and captured Ruhelkhand.
1/3/1880Publication of 'Illustrated Weekly of India' started.
1/16/1920Nani Palkhiwala, famous law expert, was born.
9/3/1987Vishwanathan Anand, 17, becomes India's first and the world's youngest Grandmaster.
7/25/1982Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913-1996) retired from the post of sixth President.
6/2/1992The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam.
1/26/199647th Republic Day celebrated;Chief Guest was Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil.
3/8/1948Air India International was established for overseas services.
10/26/1930Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay.
12/8/1996Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest cricketer to make 3000 runs in test cricket (at the age of 23 yrs and 228 days.)