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Historical Event on 5/29/1953

Mount Everest conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/30/1979R. D. Singh became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation. He was there in this office till 24 Jan. 1980.
3/30/1949Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (4 Tests for India), passed away.
12/23/1926Swami Shradhanand, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker and politician, was assassinated by a revolver shot that was fired by a young Muslim Abdul Rashid.
12/23/1926Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India.
10/21/1999Madhavrao Scindia becomes the Deputy Leader of Congress (I) in the Lok Sabha.
8/13/1954Nehru says dispute over Portuguese colonies in India must be settled peacefully.
1/29/1953Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar ""Kaka Saheb"" was appointed as the Chairman of the Backward Classes Commission.
2/20/1968Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen and others performed the first ever heart transplantion in Asia. The operation was performed by the Indian surgeons at K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay.
11/8/1960Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan.
12/7/1979First International Children's Films Festival was held in Bombay.