29 August - India on this day25 events
Indian Airlines Boeing 737 with 68 passengers and a crew of 6 hijacked in Lahore.
India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid.
Major Dhyanchand was born in a Rajput family at Prayag at Uttar Pradesh. He is remembered as a Master of Hockey. India celebrates this day as National Sports Day.
Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh.
A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab.
Gandhi arrives in London for second Round Table Conference on India.
Second operational Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1B) launched by a Russian launch vehicle, Vostok. It is still in service.
Tamil refugees leave Madras for Sri Lanka apparently on their own free will.
Eco-mark introduced in Indian market to distinguish eco-friendly products, .
Sachin Tendulkar receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Joginder Singh Saini receives the Dronacharya award, while several other leading sporstmen receive Arjuna award from President K.R. Narayanan in Delhi.
Supreme Court releases of 115 'Veerappan aides' on bail or otherwise till further orders.
Hiralal Ghasulal Gaekwad, cricket all-rounder who played Test for India in 1952-53, was born in Nagpur.
Hiralal Ghisulal Gaikwad, cricket all-rounder who played the only test vs Pakistan, was born in Nagpur.
B.M. Sumavathi creats national record in heptathlon in the Federation Cup athletics.
Sir Richard Attenborough, famous actor and director (Gandhi, Young Winston), was born.
Prasar Bharti ordinance promulgated.
Shree Maa Anandmayee of universal fame passed away. Her body was laid to rest at Shree Anandamayee Ashram in Kankhal.
Tusharkanti Ghosh, world famous Indian journalist, passed away.
Ramkrishna Hegde, former Central Cabinet Minister and Chief Minister of Karnataka, was born.
Lokdal Party established under the presidency of Chaudhary Charan Singh.