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Historical Event on 8/29/1923

Sir Richard Attenborough, famous actor and director (Gandhi, Young Winston), was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/27/1952United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party - National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as leader.
3/26/1990Sangma Ministry quits in Meghalaya. B. B. Lyngdoh is new CM.
12/31/1993Manipur placed under President's rule; Bangarappa launches Karnataka Congress Party.
10/2/1954Chandernagar, former under French possession, was made a part of West Bengal.
11/16/1947Kamta Prasad ""Guru"" died at Jabalpur. He was renowned for his contribution in the field of Hindi Grammer. He was the editor of a monthly 'Saraswati' and 'Balasakha', children magaz
10/24/2000Hyrunnisa, suspected to be the key accused in the Kollam liquor tragedy, nabbed along with her husband and a worker in her shop in Guruvayur.
12/22/1998Janata Dal's S. Jaipal Reddy selected for the ''best parliamentarian award'' for 1998.
12/22/1998Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619.
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.
11/22/1873Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), was born.