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Historical Event on 5/29/1906

Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/20/1920Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, was born at Satara. Her name is closely attached with freedom movement via Bombay Radio, as she and Babubhai Prasad and Vitthalbhai Zaveri founded this Radio and started motivating people of India with their telecasts.
8/25/1959Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister, declares in New Delhi that India will defend Bhutan and Sikkim if attacked by China.
6/13/1998India rejects G-8 prescriptions saying they are ''coercive and intrusive'' and intend to freeze the nuclear weapon capabilities of New Delhi and Islamabad.
1/22/1993A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off.
4/7/1986Charles Sobhraj and his associate David Hall were nabbed at Mapusa in Goa.
9/9/1999Mr. V. Sudarshan, Foreign Editor of The Pioneer till recently gets the Appan Menon Award.
5/13/1997Doordarshan drops plans to enter the direct-to-home (DTH) mode of television transmission.
7/15/1955Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was announced to be given to Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) by the President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
6/12/1960783 Sikhs are arrested while demonstrating for an independent Sikh state in New Delhi.
6/5/1994India test-fires a missile capable of reaching targets in China.