Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis Indian Community - TNIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 10/29/1971

Cyclone and tidal waves struck Orissa state claiming 10,000 lives.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/26/1961Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October.
10/11/1999Atal Behari Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. Two-tier ministry likely.
6/9/1967Narayan Shripad Rajhans, alias Bal Gandharva, went into a coma in Bombay and never regained his consciousness.
12/16/2000Indian Airlines wins the 60th National Hockey championship in Jammu.
2/2/1956The president inaugurated the Bhoodan padyatra led by Dr. Sushila Nayar.
12/7/1999Nareshwar Dayal is appointed India's High Commissioner to UK.
12/29/1885A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.
11/29/2000India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad.
12/20/1957Kalinga Prize for 1957 awarded to Lord Bertrand Russell.
4/12/1942Nehru pledges 'no surrender' to the Axis despite the rejection of Britain's plans at New Delhi.