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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
9/21/1954Last Indian troops withdraw from Tibet.
9/21/1954Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India.
12/17/2000The 13-day nationwide postal strike called off.
10/27/1920Kocheril Raman Narayanan was born in the village of Uzhavoor in Kottayam district, Kerala.
11/5/1999India's Aarthie Ramaswamy won the girl's under-18 crown in the World Youth Chess Festival in Oropesa, Spain. Koneru Humpy bagged the silver in girls' under-12.
10/9/1999Sunil Kumar and Sai Jayalakshmy won the men's and women's titles respectively in the National Tennis championship in Delhi. Akshay Vishal Rao emerged boys' under-18 champion.
5/22/1953Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Darjeeling and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were the first to conquer the Mount Everest (World).
4/5/1991Kerala Assembly dissolved paving way for elections.
2/22/1993Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs England at Bombay in 411 balls and smashes 23 fours.
1/18/1930Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore) and Mahatma Gandhi met at Sabarmati Ashram.