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Historical Event on 4/29/1998

The Reserve Bank reduces the bank rate by one point from 10 per cent in its monetary and credit policy for the first half of 1998- 99.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/30/1997Madras High Court restrains, by an interim injunction, the foreign universities/institutions having offices in India from awarding or conferring any degree on Indian students.
1/9/1904Pratab Singh Chaudhari, social worker, was born at Multan, Punjab .
1/14/1994Marathwada University renamed as Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University.
8/15/1994At Churchgate railway station on platform No.1, noted film actor A.K. Hangal signalled the start of theatre in a train by waving a green flag.
5/25/1936Rusi Framroz Surti, cricketer (Indian slow lefty, hat-trick for Qld 1969), was born in Surat, Gujarat.
7/23/1976Hari Chand at Montreal sets record for 10,000m in 28.48.72.
5/25/1979Commercial Unity Day started.
10/16/1942Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India.
4/14/1891Dr. Bhimrao Ramji 'Babasaheb' Ambedkar, India's great social reformer, politician, author, architect, lawyer and agitator, was born in Maharashtra.
12/16/2000Indian Airlines wins the 60th National Hockey championship in Jammu.