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Historical Event on 4/29/2000

The Army institutes a high-level court of inquiry under Maj. Gen. C.B. Suku to look into the causes of the arms depot conflagration.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/1/1998P. Subramaniam Poti (75), former Chief Justice of Kerala and Gujarat High Court, dies of a heart attack.
3/30/1665Murarbaji died at Purandar fort during a battle with Dilerkhan.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
3/29/1869Sir Edwin Lutyens, Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, was born.
4/30/1947The entire nation is stirred by religious strife.
8/15/1947Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India.
4/14/1990L. P. Poarbosa sworn in as CM of Goa.
3/27/1997South African President Nelson Mandela arrives in New Delhi on official visit.
5/2/1921Satyajeet Ray, world famous film director and a very short story writer, was born in a family of artistS. In 1989, he was awarded highest honour of France ''Legion d Honeur''.
3/22/1709It is assumed that Goswami Tulsidas started writing his great epic 'Ramcharitmanas' in Samvat 1631.