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Historical Event on 5/29/1658
Dara Shukoh was utterly defeated by Aurangzeb in the battle of Samugarh near Agra.
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| 5/11/1985 | Booby (Doll) trap bomb kills 86 people in India. |
| 5/11/1985 | Pedro Alvaris, Portugese businessman, reached Calicut and established the first European factory in India. |
| 2/16/1980 | The first visible Total Solar Eclipse of the 20th Century was seen. This succeeded the total solar eclipse after 22 June 1898. |
| 7/9/1755 | E Braddock, British General, was mortally wounded during French & Indian War. |
| 1/16/1938 | Sarat Chandra Chatterji, famous Bengali novelist and writer, passed away. |
| 8/14/1900 | S. K. Patil, Congress leader, was born. |
| 7/22/1959 | Ananth Kumar was born in Banglore. He is a Minister in Vajpayee's Government. |
| 9/30/1989 | INS Shalki, India's first indigenously built submarine, launched in Bombay. |
| 11/30/2000 | CBI files fresh cases against JMM MPs Shibu Soren, Simon Marandi and Suraj Mandal on charges of possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income. |
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