29 JUN HISTORY TODAY

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Events for June 29

29-June-1533	Chaitanya Maha Prabhu, vaishnav Sant, passed away. His mortal remains at Puri.(9/7or 29/6).
29-June-1757	Mir Zafar was installed on the throne as the Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orrisa from Murshidabad.
29-June-1857	Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British).
29-June-1864	Dr. Asutosh Mukherjee, great judge, educationist and lawyer of Bengal, was born at Calcutta.
29-June-1873	Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, first Bengali modern poet, died.
29-June-1893	Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, physics, mathematics expert and founder of Indian Statistical Institute, was born at Calcutta.
29-June-1901	Amal Kumar Sarkar, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
29-June-1908	Pratapsing Gaekwad, Prince of Baroda, was born.
29-June-1909	Pandit Motilal, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born.
29-June-1924	Ezra Laderman, NYC, composer (Jacob & the Indians), was born.
29-June-1966	Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, famous mathematics expert, died.
29-June-1976	Sandhya Chib, Miss India-Universe (1996), was born.
29-June-1991	A 32-member Left Front cabinet led by Jyoti Basu sworn in in West Bengal.
29-June-1992	Congress (I) nominates K. R. Narayanan for the Vice-Presidentship.
29-June-1993	24 jawans were killed in ambush by NSCN militants in Manipur.
29-June-1997	Anand wins Frankfurt chess classic '97 title in Germany.
29-June-1998	Government decides to grant full statehood for Delhi and create three new States namely Uttaranchal, Vananchal and Chattisgarh.
29-June-1999	An Indian High Commissioner member N. R. Doraiswamy is beaten up by Pakistani intelligence operatives.
29-June-2000	The Election Commission derecognises seven regional parties in some states -- Samata Party in Haryana, Shiv Sena in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and the RJD in Manipur, NTR-Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh, the Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) in Chandigarh, the United Minority Front in Assam and the Haryana Vikas Party in Haryana-- These will remain registered but unrecognised parties.