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Events for January 29

29-January-1780	Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta .
29-January-1781	First Newspaper, J.A.Hickey's Bengal Gazette - January 29, 1781.
29-January-1853	Madhusudan Rao, modern writer in Oria language, was born.
29-January-1870	`Hicleche Bengal Gazette' newspaper published in India.
29-January-1896	Swami Paranabananda Brahamachari, founder of `Bharat Sevashram Sangha', was born in Bajitpur village of Faridpur district. He took 'sanyas' in 1924.
29-January-1912	Judge A.N. Ray, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.
29-January-1931	Gandhiji sails for England as Congress delegate to Second Round Table Conference. This conference was attended by Madan Mohan Malaviya and Sarojini Naidu.
29-January-1939	Radical Subhas Chandra Rose beats Gandhi's candidature to become Indian President.
29-January-1939	Ramkrishna Mission Sanskritik Sansthan (Institute of Culture) was established.
29-January-1948	Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas.
29-January-1953	Indian National Academy of Dance, Drama and Music inaugurated.
29-January-1953	Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar ""Kaka Saheb"" was appointed as the Chairman of the Backward Classes Commiss
29-January-1955	`Bhartiya Kamgar Kisan Party' established.
29-January-1968	Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, one Test for India, died.
29-January-1975	West Indies won the fifth test against India after winning the exciting cricket series 3-2.
29-January-1976	Parliamenentary Committee on official language constituted. The Committee has since then submitted six parts of its report and Presidential orders have been issued on first five parts of it. The sixth part is in print.
29-January-1976	Parliament approves permanent government and censorship of newspapers at New Delhi.
29-January-1977	Judge Mirza Hameedullah Beg became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 21/02/1978.
29-January-1979	Tamil Nadu Expess, India's first Jumbo passenger train, was flagged off from New Delhi Railway Station for Madras.
29-January-1983	Indira Gandhi names 12 new ministers as Cabinet resigns.
29-January-1983	Piloo Mody, veteran Parliament member and senior leader of Janata Party, passed away.
29-January-1992	India and Israel decide to establish full diplomatic relations.
29-January-1993	Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman.
29-January-1994	Air India and Indian Airlines converted into companies.
29-January-1996	S.R. Bommai was replaced by Laloo Prasad Yadav as Janata Dal president.
29-January-1997	Olympic Hockey captain Pargat Singh announces retirement.
29-January-1997	Supreme Court rules that water is a 'mineral'.
29-January-1997	Fire engulfs most of the three top floors of the Express Towers, skyrise building owned by Indian Express group in Mumbai.
29-January-1998	Suicide by more than 50 farmers reported in the Telangana region in the past few days.
29-January-1999	Alok Kumar of Punjab defeated Devendra Joshi of Maharashtra at the IIT complex at New Delhi.