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Historical Event on 10/29/1988
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya, freedom fighter and political leader, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/29/1988 | Firuz Shah Tughluq, the third emperor of Delhi, died at the age of 83. |
| 3/15/1908 | Police shoot four people in rioting. |
| 6/8/1992 | Assets of 31 persons including Harshad Mehta attached. |
| 9/16/1990 | Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War. |
| 5/24/1991 | The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused. |
| 11/8/1932 | Sankhla Badluram, great industrialist, was born in Delhi. |
| 10/28/1888 | Gandhiji reaches London. Lives on vegatarian diet. Takes lessons in dancing and music for a short time, thinking they are necessary parts of a gentleman's equipment. |
| 4/14/1905 | Earthquake at Kangra region in Himachal. |
| 1/16/1966 | Sadhu Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, noted thinker and saint poet, great orator, professor and prolific writer, died at Pune. |
| 11/5/1931 | M. G. Subramaniam, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1983-84, was born in Karnataka. |
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