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Historical Event on 12/29/1885
A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/22/1947 | India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India. |
| 9/10/1858 | Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, great author and father of modern Gujarati poems, was born. |
| 6/5/1923 | Santosh Kumar Kisku Rev, great educationist and social worker, was born. |
| 3/8/1921 | Sahir Ludhiyanvi, famous film lyricist, was born. |
| 9/2/1970 | Parliament abolishes the privileges of 279 maharajahs in New Delhi. |
| 8/15/1990 | Uttar Maharashtra University was established. |
| 4/30/1992 | Over 7 years after the gas disaster, a Bhopal court orders attachment of Carbide properties in India. |
| 11/2/1774 | Lord Robert Clive, one of the founders of British Rule in India, British Army Chief and Diplomat, died. He committed suicide in England at the age of 49 under strain of ill health and charges of his misdeeds in India. |
| 12/1/1965 | Border Security Force was organised, which would be armed and trained to man the International Border with Pakistan. |
| 3/18/1992 | Shreyanprasad Jain, famous philanthropist and industrialist, passed away. |
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