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Historical Event on 9/29/2000

India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/30/1992Import duty on gold halved; minor concessions in direct taxes.
10/10/1906Narayan Rasipuram Krishnaswamy, great Indian writer, was born.
9/27/1908Shiv Verma, great soldier, was born.
9/2/1956Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India).
10/16/1959National Council of Women's Education was inaugurated in New Delhi.
12/8/1879Jatindranath Mukherjee (Jatin Bagha), famous revolutionary, was born in Jessore.
11/17/1915Vishnu Gopal Pingle was hanged for revolting against the Indian Army in Talegaon prison of Pune.
11/1/1902Alwar Iyengar Jaggu, famous Hindi writer and professor, was born at Chatra Ghosham.
11/1/1996Three national parties (Indira Congress, Janata Party and Samata Party) to lose their recognition as national parties as they failed to get the minimum required support in the general election to the 11th Lok Sabha.
9/5/1997CBI chargesheets former Railway Minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief for possessing assets disproportionate to his income.