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Historical Event on 8/29/1998

Sachin Tendulkar receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Joginder Singh Saini receives the Dronacharya award, while several other leading sporstmen receive Arjuna award from President K.R. Narayanan in Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/26/1996Supreme Court asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to the Income Tax department.
2/3/1986Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa at Calcutta.
8/2/1922Krishnapal Singh, politician and lawyer, was born at Birahuli in Madhya Pradesh.
11/9/1972Laxmi Poruri, guntur India and tennis star (1994 Futures-College Park), was born.
6/23/2000Indian journalist Palagummi Sainath gets Amnesty International Global award for human rights journalism..
9/21/1938Prof. Raghuveer Singh Rathore, Cricket Test umpire for one test in 1990-91, was born in Rajasthan.
9/14/1967US announces plan to give India $1.3 million to buy contraceptives.
7/28/1972India and Pakistan sign Simla Pact, settling border dispute in Kashmir.
4/21/1998The services of 12 non-railway chairmen of Railway Recruitment Boards are terminated.
12/11/1991R. G. Sardesai, veteran journalist, died.