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Historical Event on 10/29/1999

L .K. Advani, Home Minister, says the Centre is in touch with cyclone-hit states.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/1/1998Tatas withdraw their Rs. 1,475-crore proposal to operate an airline with foreign equity participation in the domestic sector.
7/11/1973India frees 438 Pakistani prisoners on medical grounds.
5/17/1857Bahadhur Shah II declared as the emperor of India.
9/19/1990Planning Commission announces 8th Five-Year Plan proposals with a total outlay of Rs. 610,000 crore.
12/11/1922Dilip Kumar, famous film actor, was born.
8/4/1979Indian Airlines AVRO-748 crashes in to a hill near Bombay.
7/14/1923Iqbal Singh Bhatia, great educationist, was born at Kotla Qasim Khan, (Pakistan).
3/1/1919Mahatma Gandhi announced his desire to start 'Satyagraha' against proposed Rowlatt Act meant to curb civil and political liberties.
12/28/1931The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him.
7/29/1991Vazhappadi K. Ramamurthy, Union Labour Minister, resigns on account of differences on Cauvery water issue.