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Historical Event on 12/29/1984

Rajiv Gandhi claims for Indian Prime Minister post after his landslide majority in 8th General Elections.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/20/1926For the first time in the history of the competition, Scotland beats England for rugby's Calcutta Cup in London.
11/23/1990Madhavrao Ganesh (Balasaheb Dixit), founder of daily news paper ""Turun Bharat"", passed away.
2/21/1987Pakistan President Gen. Zia visits India.
1/15/1998Gulzari Lal Nanda, Gandhian freedom fighter and twice acting Prime Minister in 1964 and 1966, died in Ahmedabad at the age of 100 years.
1/28/1937Suman Kalyanpurkar, famous singer, was born.
12/17/1996Virendrakumar Jain, famous writer, died in Mumbai.
8/5/1969Bapu Krishnarao Venkatesh Prasad, cricketer (consistent Indian Test pace bowler 1996-), was born in Bangalore.
5/11/1991Naxalities in Andhra abduct P. Sudhir Kumar, son of the former Union Minister Shiv Shankar.
4/1/1935The Reserve Bank of India was established as a Central Bank and the job of issuing notes was entrusted to this bank. The Commissioner's office which issued currency was abolished and was substituted by the Governer of the RBI. The issue offices scattered around the country came to be called as the regional offices of the Reserve Bank.
1/18/1932Shyam Nandan Kishore, great educationist, was born at Muzaffarpur.