|
|
Historical Event on 12/29/1997
Sonia Gandhi stepped into active politics.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/20/1957 | Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' is declared the best film at the San Francisco Film Festival. |
| 5/26/1998 | S. Chandrasekar, scientist, was selected for the Niels Bohr-UNESCO gold medal. |
| 11/14/1959 | Nehru rejects China's proposal for a mutual withdrawal of troops from a border buffer zone. |
| 11/14/1995 | National Human Rights Commission's conference on 'Human Rights in Prisons' begins in New Delhi. |
| 10/30/1963 | Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Thevar, nationalist, freedom fighter and social worker, died at Madurai. |
| 6/4/1997 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2D), fourth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has additional capabilities such as mobile satellite service, business communication and television outreach beyond Indian boundaries. This became inoperable due to power bus anamoly since Oct. 4, 1997. It was launched by European launch vehicle, Ariane from Kourov in French Guyana. |
| 12/14/1936 | Kamalkant Bhattacharya, Assamese thinker and author, passed away. |
| 5/18/1901 | Nibaran Chandra Chakrabarti, great poet and Hindi writer, was born in Brahmangaon, (Dacca). |
| 8/21/1997 | Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India. |
| 12/10/1902 | Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
