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Historical Event on 12/29/1972

Construction work of Metro Train in Calcutta commenced.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/12/1961Portuguese civilians are evacuated amid fears of an Indian troop invasion at Goa, Daman and Diu.
8/11/1997Hundreds travelling by Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express from Guwahati have miraculous escape as improvised explosive device planted by suspected Bodo extremists explodes on track near Guwahati.
7/7/1763Britishers declared Mir Jafer as Nawab of Bengal.
12/24/1905Sen Triguna, educationist and technologist, was born.
3/1/1993India develops Phased Array Radars critical for its ""Akash"" surface-to-air missile and launches its indigenous main battle tank 'Arjun'.
8/1/1970Bhopal University was established.
8/29/1928Hiralal Ghisulal Gaikwad, cricket all-rounder who played the only test vs Pakistan, was born in Nagpur.
3/14/1999Arjun Atwal won the Indian Open Golf in Calcutta.
7/3/1985Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1988.
8/15/1997K.Sasikaran gets third IM norm in British Open Chess tournament.