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Historical Event on 1/29/1997
Olympic Hockey captain Pargat Singh announces retirement.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/12/1970 | Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives. |
| 4/17/1926 | Chandrashekhar, eighth Prime Minister of India, was born. |
| 12/14/1999 | India lost to Australia by 285 runs in Adelaide in the first cricket Test. |
| 2/16/1962 | General Election ( 3rd) of India begins. |
| 4/17/1946 | Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, greatest social reformer, freedom fighter, educationist, politician, master, scholar of Sanskrit and President of India, passed away. |
| 8/29/1923 | Hiralal Ghasulal Gaekwad, cricket all-rounder who played Test for India in 1952-53, was born in Nagpur. |
| 10/26/1981 | Dattatrey Ramchandra Bendre, Gyanpeet awardee and Kannad poet, died. |
| 1/15/1949 | General K. N. Kariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief. He was the first Indian to reach to this post in Indian Army. In 1956, he was designated as Chief of the Army Staff - General, later Field Marshal. This event is commemoratively observed as Army Day. |
| 10/17/1915 | Virendra Kumar Jain, great Hindi writer, was born in Mandsaur. |
| 11/2/1885 | Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar (Annasaheb), first great Marathi musical drama playwright, died. |
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