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Historical Event on 8/29/1928

Hiralal Ghisulal Gaikwad, cricket all-rounder who played the only test vs Pakistan, was born in Nagpur.

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9/30/1922Bakhshish Singh Nijjar, great historian and author, was born at Domeli village (Punjab).
10/20/1969Punjabrao Agriculture University established.
8/25/1948Jana Gana Mana to be the provisional National Anthem till Constituent Assembly made a final decision.
3/21/1998Jaswant Singh is appointed Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission after the resignation of Prof. Madhu Dandavate.
5/19/1979Pandit Hajari Prasad Dwivedi passed away.
10/21/1934Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan and his friends established the 'Congress Socialist Party' and Acharya Narendra Dev was its President and JP was its Gen. Secretary.
11/20/1969Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs Australia in Kanpur.
12/29/1977World's biggest Drive-In theatre started screening in Bombay.
12/20/1920Justice Ali Sayyed Murtuza Fazal  was born.
12/31/1999This Indian Railway, carries more than 11 million passengers in a day, runs on more than 62,000 route kilometers and more than 1,07,000 track kilometers daily. This is the largest Railway System under Single Management.