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Historical Event on 8/29/1931
Gandhi arrives in London for second Round Table Conference on India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/25/1606 | Guru Arjun Dev, spiritual leader of Sikhs and Hindus, was massacred at the instruction of Emperor Jahangir. |
| 12/12/1992 | The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad. |
| 7/2/1929 | Amritlal Basu, famous Bengali playwright, died. |
| 10/24/1954 | Rafi Ahmad Kidwai, Congress leader, died. |
| 6/18/1946 | First Satyagraha movement was started for Goa liberation from the Portuguese. |
| 2/23/1946 | Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns. |
| 9/21/1984 | National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources and National Institute of Animal Genetics were set up. These institutes were initially located in the campus of southern regional station of National Dairy Research Institute, Bangalore. They were then shifted to Karnal in July 1985. |
| 2/13/1856 | East India Company captured Lucknow along with Avadh Kingdom. |
| 12/16/2000 | Indian Airlines wins the 60th National Hockey championship in Jammu. |
| 4/24/1996 | SC holds that bank managers acting beyond their authority in allowing overdrafts and passing cheques would be amounted to committing misconduct. |
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