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Historical Event on 8/29/1947

A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/12/1997Sitaram Kesri elected president of Congress I (6224 votes. Sharad Pawar-888; Rajesh Pilot-354).
12/28/1926Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service.
7/15/1986Sandhya Agarwal made 190 runs in third Womens Test Cricket setting a new record in England.
6/2/1992The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam.
7/16/1997V. S. Rama Devi, Secretary-General of Rajya Sabha, appointed Governor of Himachal Pradesh.
10/2/1999Ban orders in Madhepura Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar.
12/20/1948Ladha Ramji, brother of Amar Singh and played his only Test vs Eng in 1933-34, died at Rajkot.
3/1/1978Justice Y. Y. Chandrachud is sworn in as the Chief Justice of India.
8/4/1845Pherozeshah Mehta, who published the first Hindi newspaper and one of the founders of Indian National Congress, was born in Bombay.
5/26/1945Vilasrao Dagdojirao Deshmukh, leader in Maharashtra, was born.