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Historical Event on 11/29/1916

Vasant Shridhar Vaidya, great industrialist, was born at Phaltan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
3/1/1987A Pakistani official quoted as saying, ""Pakistan has nuclear bomb capabilities at New Delhi"".
9/24/1998In his address to the UN General Assembly, PM Vajpayee said that India wouldl not come in the way of implementing CTBT and may sign it conditionally by September 1999.
1/16/1681Sambhaji was crowned as the successor of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in a function held at Raigad Fort.
1/19/1910Vinayak Damodar Karnaki (Master Vinayak), famous Marathi actor, director and producer, was born.
6/15/1953Internal Air Route Corporation of India was established.
4/2/1953Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist and writer, passed away.
4/20/1971India won Cricket Test Rubber' for the first time after defeating West Indies Cricket Team.
2/20/1982The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
12/1/1955Nikita Khrushchev delivers speech condemning British colonialism.