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Historical Event on 5/29/1933
Gandhi ends his 21-day fast, his second for the cause of the 'untouchables'.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/14/1931 | First Indian talkie film 'Alam Ara' released at Majestic Cinema, Bombay. Directed by Ardeshir Irani, the film was 11,152 ft. long and was produced by Imperial Film Co., Bombay and beared censored No. 10043 on March 11. The most remarkable thing about this film was birth of sound in Indian films, it came with a bang and quickly displaced the silent movies and brought revolutionary changes in the whole set up of the industry. |
| 12/14/1999 | India lost to Australia by 285 runs in Adelaide in the first cricket Test. |
| 10/31/1999 | Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President, is conferred with the Indira Gandhi Award. |
| 8/6/1920 | Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon. |
| 4/3/1700 | Sikandar, former sultan of Vijapur, passed away at Satara in the imprisonment of Mughals. |
| 10/2/1971 | Gandhi Sadan was handed over to the nation. |
| 5/17/1873 | Hindi daily 'Bharat Mitra' started from Calcutta. |
| 4/3/1999 | India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana. |
| 4/4/1947 | San Francisco's Henry Grady chosen the first U.S. ambassador to India. |
| 8/25/1981 | Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra leader, elected the President of Congress. |
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