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Historical Event on 12/29/1885

A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.

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4/2/1994Governor Bhanu Prakash Singh dismisses Wilfred D'souza Government in Goa.
8/9/1892Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, was born.
4/4/1910Sri Aurobindo left politics and reached Pondicherry, where he made the seat of Yoga.
3/16/1966Judge Amal Kumar Sarkar became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 29/06/1966.
11/13/1901War Secretary Brodrick claimed that Boers were killing natives in large numbers. He intended to withdraw troops from India to fight in S. Africa at London.
3/21/1979Morarji Desai, PM, inaugurated the Backward Classes Commission in New Delhi.
3/3/1924Mustafa Kamal Attaturk abolished the caliphate and established a nationalist government and thus Khilafat Movement ended without achieving its aim.
9/24/1994At least 100 people die after an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the western city of Surat.