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Today in Indian History November 29

29-November-1644           The Massachusetts General Court issued a call for local pastors to learn the dialects of neighboring Indian tribes as an aid toward converting them to the Christian faith.

29-November-1798           Neplus Naresh Fardinad Chaturth announced that they will fight against France.

29-November-1869           Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkar Bappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, was born at Bhavnagar, Saurashtra.

29-November-1916           Vasant Shridhar Vaidya, great industrialist, was born at Phaltan.

29-November-1926           Prabhakar Narayan Padhye (Bhau Padhye), great journalist and litterateur, was born.

29-November-1928           Krishnaji Narayan Aathaly, great Marathi litterateur and editor, passed away.

29-November-1945           Ugoslaviya in Rajshahi was ended.

29-November-1947           The Nizam of Hyderabad said that he would not consider acceding to either dominion, but would agree to a 'standstill arrangement' with India. The agreement is accepted by the Indian government.

29-November-1948           Assembly bans discrimination against untouchables.

29-November-1952           First international organization for birth control founded in Bombay.

29-November-1953           Bahuriya Ramswarup Devi, better known as Laxmibai of Bihar, passed away. She will be always remembered for Chapra District Revolt, whereby she tied seven British men and threw them in Narayani River.

29-November-1953           Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague.

29-November-1959           Govind Sakharam Serdesai, Jagirdar Raobahadur, passed away.

29-November-1961           First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India.

29-November-1989           Rajiv Gandhi resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India.

29-November-1989           Voters oust Gandhi and Congress party

29-November-1991           Industrial and bank strike called by the left-oriented trade unions to oppose the new industrial and economic policies.

29-November-1991           Test Cricket debut of Javagal Srinath vs Australia at Gabba.

29-November-1993           Jahangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata ""J.R.D. Tata"", Bharat Ratna awardee, Father of Modern Indian Industries and founder of Indian Aviation industry, passed away at 89 .

29-November-1994           M.H. Kania, former Chief Justice of India made Chairman of the 14th Law Commission.

29-November-1999           Delhi HC dismisses the CBI plea against Jain brothers in Hawala case.

29-November-2000           India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad.