Year 1939
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose resigned from Congress.
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29 April: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 29 April.
Observances & Special Days
International Dance Day (UNESCO)
Year 1945
World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
Year 1965
Pakistan successfully launched its seventh rocket.
Year 1982
International Dance Day began.
Year 1991
A severe cyclone in the southern Chittagong district of Bangladesh killed at least 138,000 people and left millions homeless.
Year 1997
The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 entered into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
Born 1848
Raja Ravi Varma, a celebrated Indian painter, and artist.
Born 1867
Dr. Shankar Abaji Bhise, an Indian scientist.
Born 1891
Bharathidasan, a Tamil poet and writer rationalist.
Born 1919
Ustad Allarakha Qureshi, an Indian tabla player.
Born 1936
Zubin Mehta, an Indian conductor of Western and Eastern classical music.
Born 1958
Ramachandra Guha, an Indian writer.
Born 1979
Ashish Nehra is an Indian cricket coach and former cricketer.
Died 1959
Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, India-born English soldier and Governor of Gibraltar (b. 1891)
Died 1960
Bal Krishna Sharma Naveen, an Indian freedom activist, journalist, politician, and poet of Hindi literature.
Died 1980
Alfred Hitchcock, an English film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Died 2006
JK Galbraith, a Canadian-American economist.
Died 2020
Irrfan Khan, an Indian actor.