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Historical Event on 8/29/1612
Battle at Surat in India; English fleet beats Portuguese.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/1/1989 | Yasser Arafat chosen for the 1988 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding. |
| 3/13/2000 | Parliament approves TRAI Bill seeking to bifurcate it into a Tribunal and a Regulator, with the Rajya Sabha passing the measure by a voice vote. |
| 8/3/1984 | Bomb attack at Madras airport claims 32 lives. |
| 1/22/1945 | The Indian 7th Division captures Tilin at Burma. |
| 8/5/1992 | The Supreme Court appoints a 3-member panel to visit Ayodhya and report on the new structures there. |
| 6/5/1923 | Santosh Kumar Kisku Rev, great educationist and social worker, was born. |
| 12/27/1797 | Mirza Ghalib, great urdu poet and writer, was born at Agra. |
| 11/18/1925 | Madhukar Gopal Pathak, noted author and film director, was born. |
| 7/5/1916 | Archik Venkatesh Gopalkrishna, great poet, journalist and orator, was born at Dharwar, Mysore. |
| 7/5/1984 | Indian Airlines airbus hijacked, lands in Lahore. |
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