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Historical Event on 8/29/1947

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar became the President of Constitution Council.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/30/1995Notification issued for the constitution of Jharkhand Autonomous District Council.
9/19/2000Gopi Chand of India falls to Henderawan of Indonesia in the quarter-finals of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.
9/22/1970Bandopadhyay Shardendu, modern Bengali poet, died.
1/26/1995Three powerful bombs rip through a celebration at a sports stadium in Kashmir as the State Governor addresses the crowd;7 people killed and 47 injured.
8/2/2000The Lok Sabha performs a ''hat-trick'' by setting off the process for the creation of three new states by passing the Jharkhand Bill.
11/2/1971Hurricane and ensuing tidal wave takes 6,000 lives.
9/26/1996Deve Gowda, PM, takes oath as Rajya Sabha member. He was the first PM to enter parliament through RS. Indira Gandhi was already a RS member when elected leader in 1966.
1/19/1697Maharana Pratap, the founder of Mewad and eminent personality, passed away.
3/14/1998Sonia Gandhi takes over as the Congress(I) president from Sitaram Kesri.
4/14/1914Takli Shivshankar, famous Malyalam novelist and short story writer, was born.