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Historical Event on 8/29/1991

Second operational Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1B) launched by a Russian launch vehicle, Vostok. It is still in service.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/14/1989Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985.
10/14/1997Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit Amritsar and spend time at the Jallianwala Bagh and Golden Temple complex.
1/21/1969First India built electronic digital computer commissioned.
7/19/1965Batukeshwar Dutt, great revolutionary, passed away.
11/9/1841Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), was born.
2/12/1993The baggage rules relaxed further.
3/16/1901Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
5/9/1996LDF wins 80 sets and UDF 59 in Kerala elections .
7/5/1992Bahadur Prasad at London sets record for 3000m in 7.56.74.
3/22/1977Ayillyath Kuttiari Goplan, freedom fighter, social reformer and Marxist leader, passed away in Trivandrum.