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Historical Event on 9/29/1998

ISRO successfully launches its largest sounding rocket, Rohini (RH-560 mk, 11 total payload, 127 kg).

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/30/1977Swami Agnivesh merged his 'Bhartiya Aryasabha Party' in Janata Party.
12/1/1989National Front decides to form a government with outside support from the BJP and the Left Parties.
1/8/1884Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society.
3/4/1925Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away.
3/4/1925Property Tax was passed.
9/26/1793Rani Rashmoni, great nationalist and social worker, was born in Kona village, 24 Parganas (north), West Bengal.
2/25/1923S. Kumaran, political, social reformer and Trade Union worker, was born in Alleppey, Kerala.
12/25/1943Japanese bombers raid Chittagong.
6/3/1901Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, was born. He was the first winner of the conveted Gyaanpeeth Award in 1965 for his poems "Odakkuzhal" in Malayalam.
5/26/1957Janta Insurance Scheme was inaugurated in Bombay.