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Historical Event on 9/29/1998
ISRO successfully launches its largest sounding rocket, Rohini (RH-560 mk, 11 total payload, 127 kg).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/6/1994 | Ram Mahadik, Congress leader, passed away. |
| 3/30/1994 | G-15 summit in New Delhi decides to set up a trade panel. |
| 1/5/1941 | Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi jr., Indian batsman & youngest Indian Test Captain), was born in Bhopal. |
| 10/18/1712 | Jeremias Van Riemsdijk, Governor General of Dutch Indies (1775-77), was born. |
| 4/17/1996 | Sheila Kaul, H.P. Governor, indicted in house allotment scandal, should be removed from her post, says Supreme Court. |
| 12/6/2000 | A.B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, said, ""The Ayodhya agitation was an 'expression of nationalist feelings' and the ""task has remained unfinished |
| 1/31/1997 | Government raises quantity of gold that can be brought into the country by non-residents to 10 kg. (from the existing 5). |
| 2/11/1913 | Surendranath Dwivedi, educationist, politician and writer, was born in Khandasahi (Orissa). |
| 8/11/1984 | A cloud of toxic chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant near Charleston, West Virginia, this morning, and at least 135 residents were treated for eye, throat, and lung irritation. Last December, methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a Union Carbide plant in India, killing 2,000 people. No MIC escaped today, plant officials said. Aldicarb oxime, a much less toxic gas, is declared as one constituent of the gas cloud. |
| 6/5/1997 | Brahmapuram diesel power project, KSEB's first thermal power project, situated 25 km from Kochi, Kerala commissioned. |
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