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Historical Event on 11/29/1961

First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/25/1995Bomb attack on a train in Assam; 27 soldiers killed.
6/2/1990Union Government set up a tribunal to settle the Cauvery water issue between Tamil Nadu & Karnataka.
8/15/1955Satyagrah started for the freedom of Goa.
2/1/1994PM Rao attends the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
10/31/1984Rajiv Gandhi sworn in as Prime Minister of India by Gyani Zail Singh, President of India, at New Delhi. He held this office till December 1, 1989.
2/11/1959Vinoo Mankad plays his final Test Cricket (vs West Indies at Delhi).
10/6/1998Railways wins the BOB-Senior National Hockey championship for women defeating Haryana in the final at Chennai.
12/25/1879Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born.
8/11/1956The Lok Sabha passed the States Reorganisation Act.
12/13/1902Ilachandra Joshi, famous Hindi novelist, story writer, critic and journalist, was born.