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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 |
| 7/3/1996 | 25 to 30\% hike in prices of petroleum products. |
| 5/27/1990 | Om Prakash Chautala, former CM, wins Mehem by-election. |
| 2/25/2000 | The Supreme Court stays the Madras High Court order discharging the former Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo, Ms. Jayalalitha, from the two TANSI deal cases. |
| 2/25/1993 | BJP rally in New Delhi foiled. |
| 12/1/1999 | Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister, is named ""`Woman of the Millennium'' in a BBC pol |
| 2/15/1901 | Muddan, famous Kannad poet and author, passed away. |
| 1/22/1993 | A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off. |
| 6/17/1993 | K. D. Dharmadhikari (Nana), veteran freedom fighter, died. |
| 7/9/1999 | Ashok Mitra (82), noted writer, academician and former bureaucrat, died in Calcutta. |
| 1/2/1757 | After the Battle of Plassey, Clive, Britisher, defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal and re-captured Calcutta, after it had been seized by the Nawab of Bengal who had used the ""Black Hole"" to imprison British captives. |
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