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Historical Event on 12/29/1844

W.C. Bonerjee, first President of the Indian National Congress, was born in Kidderpore, Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/30/1895Pandurang Sakharam Pisurlekar, great historian in Goa, was born.
8/15/1947Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India.
9/8/1962Chinese army infiltrated in the north-east border of India exceeding the Mac-Mahon line (Tibet-India boundary). This was the first ocassion of Chinese infiltration.
2/7/2000Kamaluddin Ahmed, former APCC(I) president and four times Congress MP, joins the BJP.
8/26/1984An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers.
4/3/1857Queen Victoria declared as Queen of India also.
12/10/1936Duke of York succeeds King Edward as King George VI.
7/24/1996Govt. decides to raise the ceiling on the maximum amount of retirement/death gratuity from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 2.50 lakhs.
9/7/1931The Second Round Table conference began in London and lasted till 1st December, 1931. Congress was solely represented by Gandhi and Muslim League by Sir Allama Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam. Two committees were set up to carry out the work of the conference on Federal Structure and Minorities. Gandhi was the member of both the committees. He claimed that being the sole representative of the Congress, he represented the whole of India. Quaid-e-Azam replied that Muslims are a separate nation. Sir Shafi demanded that the 14 points of Quaid-e-Azam be incorporated in the future constitution.
11/19/1977Cyclone hits Andhra Pradesh causing flooding and tidal waves and killing 10,000.