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Historical Event on 8/29/1974
Lokdal Party established under the presidency of Chaudhary Charansingh.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/16/1960 | Ganesh Chintaman Karve, creator of Marathi dictionary and author, passed away. |
| 3/1/1992 | Anant Gundopant Tendulkar, great journalist, passed away. |
| 2/18/1823 | Gopal Hari Deshmukh, lokhitwadi, was born. |
| 12/14/1812 | Lord Charles Caning, Governor General and Viceroy of India (1856-1862), was born. |
| 6/27/1906 | Establishment of `Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad'. |
| 8/11/1908 | Khudiram Bose was hanged on this day in Central Jail at Mujaffarpur, Bihar at the age of 19 years. He along with Prafulla Chaki had planned to bomb the carriage supposed to be carrying Kingsford, unfortunately he was betrayed and was caught and finally was sentenced to death and hanged. This day is observed as ""Martyr's Day"" in memory of the great freedom fighter. Even today the soul stirring songs composed in his honour are sung by Bengali folk-singers. |
| 1/28/1895 | Shankarrao Dattatray Dev, veteran Congress leader, Gandhian and Sarvoday leader, was born. |
| 1/28/1895 | Sultan Ghiyasu'd-din Tughluq Shah, emperor of Delhi, passed away. |
| 11/18/1727 | Maharaja Jai Singh-II of Amber laid the stone of Jaipur City. Vidyadhar Chakravarty of Bengal was the architect of the first planned city in India. |
| 6/4/1953 | University of Cambridge confers honorary Doctorate of Laws on J. L. Nehru. |
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