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Historical Event on 12/29/1968

Chunilal Kalidas Madiya, famous Gujrathi playwright, story writer and novelist, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/29/1953Mount Everest conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay.
8/26/1984An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers.
9/20/1928Narayan Guru ""Nanu"" of Kerala entered in maha Samadhi. His teachings are held in great reverence even today.
8/15/1968Marathwada', a daily newspaper, published.
9/29/1907Labour MP James Keir Hardie accuses UK of running India 'like the Czar runs Russia'
9/16/1990Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
12/10/1989Janardan Swami passed away.
11/5/1950Faiyaj Khan, famous singer of Indian classical music, died.
6/13/1965Maninder Singh Harbansingh Billa, cricketer (Indian leftarm spinner in 35 Tests 1982-93), was born in Pune.
1/10/199728th International Film Festival of India opens at Trivandrum.