29 March 2023: Today in History | What Happened on this Day?
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29-March-1561
·
Akbar
attacked Malwa at Sarangpur and defeated Bajbahadar.
29-March-1849
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Maharthroneip Singh left the throne of Punjab that once belonged to the East India Company, then occupied his late father Ranjit Singh. The Britishers
had captured it after defeating the Sikh Army at Amritsar.
29-March-1857
·
Sepoy
Mangal Pandey shot the first bullet of the 1857 Indian mutiny in the barracks of
Barrackpur near Calcutta against the British Empire. This was the start of the
mutiny.
29-March-1869
·
Sir
Edwin Lutyens, Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding
architect of his time, was born.
29-March-1914
·
Mother
of Sri Aurobindo Ashram came in India.
·
Sudhir
Gupta, famous Hindi poet and educationist, was born in Kalasgram, Bangladesh.
29-March-1932
·
Sundaram
Gundibalirama, right-hand batsman and right-arm medium fast bowler as born at
Udipi in Karnataka.
29-March-1939
·
Hanumant
Singh, cricketer (14 Tests for India-century on debut), was born in Banswara.
29-March-1942
·
Britain
offered dominion status to India after the war if it cooperated now.
29-March-1943
·
Shaheed
Laxman Nayak, freedom fighter and leader, was hanged at Berhampur Jail.
29-March-1952
·
India
enters a war with Japan.
29-March-1954
·
Indian
Institute of Public Administration inaugurated.
29-March-1963
·
Siyaramsharan
Gupt, great author in the language, died.
29-March-1970
·
Union
Government revises the percentage of reservation in service for SC\STs from
12.5\% to 15\%. Orders are to beare effare ective from 25 March.
29-March-1977
·
S.
N. Mathur became the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (till
02/05/77).
29-March-1978
·
Jayasinghrao
Mansinghrao Ghorpade, cricketer, 8 Tests for India and 229 runs, passed away.
29-March-1979
·
Delhi
beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy.
29-March-1982
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Delhi
(707) beat Karnataka (705) in 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy.
29-March-1989
·
Central
Institute of Fisheries Education gets the distinction of becoming the first
Fisheries University in India.
29-March-1990
·
Adoor
Bhasi, a Malayalam film actor, passed away.
29-March-1992
·
Centenary
celebrations of Tansa Dam held at Tansa. No, Seats the Standing Committee
and Education Committee increased from 20 to 27 and 20 to 26 respectively and
that of the B.E.S. & T. Committee from 12 to 17 (Vide Maharashtra Act XXI
of 1992) (CIVIC).
·
The
expert committee recommends an autonomous council for the Jharkhand region of
Bihar.
·
Shri
Anand Rishiji Maharaj 1008, Acharya Samrat of 'Jain Shraman Sangh', passed
away.
29-March-1995
·
Harindra
Dave, chief editor of Janmabhumi Group and Gujarati author, passed away.
29-March-1996
·
SC
asks All India Congress to change its name to All Indira Congress
(Tiwari).
29-March-1998
·
The
new Govt. Wins the vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha.
29-March-1999
·
A
massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner
Himalayas claims 85 lives and over 130 injured.
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