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Historical Event on 12/29/1975

D.K. Barooah elected Congress President.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/9/199314 bus passengers burnt to death in Andhra .
3/9/1993Saint Visoba Khechar, was the yogi-guru of the Varkari poet-saint Namdev of Maharashtra, took Samadhi.
2/28/1987The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event).
11/15/1911First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler.
11/23/1897Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri, writer, was born.
6/16/1925Chittaranjan Das, great freedom fighter, revolutionary, orator, poet, journalist and lawyer, died.
2/25/1910Dalai Lama, Tibeten monk, flees from Chinese troops and takes refuge in India.
9/4/1993Lawyers all over the country decide to abolish addresses like 'My Lord', 'Your Lordship' and replace them with 'Sir', 'Your Honour,' etc.
9/17/1997Advance railway reservation period extended from 30 to 60 days w.e.f. February 01, 1998.
1/2/1948Nehru threatens Indian action to stop Pakistani raids into Kashmir.