Year 1758
The Treaty of Easton establishes the first American Indian reservation, at Indian Mills, New Jersey, for the Lenape.
AUGUST 29
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29 August: 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 August.
Year 1612
Battle at Surat in India; English fleet beats Portuguese.
Year 1931
Gandhi arrives in London for the second Round Table Conference on India.
Year 1947
BR Ambedkar was appointed the chairman of the drafting committee for the Indian Constitution. He became the President of the Constitution Council.
Year 1947
A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in Punjab.
Year 1956
India gets a $360 million loan as food aid.
Year 1959
India sends troops to the Tibet border to block the Chinese.
Year 1974
Lokdal Party was established under the presidency of Chaudhary Charan Singh.
Year 1984
Indian Airlines Boeing 737 with 68 passengers and a crew of 6 hijacked in Lahore.
Year 1991
Second operational Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1B) was launched by a Russian launch vehicle, Vostok. It is still in service.
Year 1992
Eco-mark introduced in the Indian market to distinguish eco-friendly products.
Year 1993
Tamil refugees leave Madras for Sri Lanka apparently of their own free will.
Year 1995
National Sports Day declared.
Year 1997
B.M. Sumavathi creates a national record in the heptathlon in the Federation Cup athletics.
Year 1998
Prasar Bharti ordinance promulgated.
Year 1998
Sachin Tendulkar receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Joginder Singh Saini receives the Dronacharya award, while several other leading sportsmen receive the Arjuna award from President K.R. Narayanan in Delhi.
Year 2000
Supreme Court releases 115 'Veerappan aides' on bail or otherwise till further orders.
Born 1863
Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy was a Telugu writer.
Born 1880
Madhav Shrihari Ane, a great Freedom fighter, was born.
Born 1887
Jivraj Narayan Mehta was a politician and the first CM of Gujarat. He served as the first “Dewan” of the Baroda state and as the Indian high commissioner to the UK between 1963 to 1966.
Born 1905
Major Dhyan Chand was a famous hockey player. He is regarded as the greatest hockey player in the history of the sport. In addition to earning Olympic gold medals in 1928, 1932, and 1936, he was also known for his extraordinary goal-scoring feats. He was born in a Rajput family at Prayag in Uttar Pradesh.
Born 1923
Hiralal Ghasulal Gaekwad, cricket all-rounder who played Test for India in 1952-53, was born in Nagpur.
Born 1923
Sir Richard Attenborough, a famous actor and director (Gandhi, Young Winston), was born.
Born 1926
Ramkrishna Hegde, former Central Cabinet Minister and Chief Minister of Karnataka was born.
Born 1928
Hiralal Ghisulal Gaikwad, cricket all-rounder who played the only test vs Pakistan, was born in Nagpur.
Born 1943
Panchaksharam Rangasamy Pillai, professionally called Vijayakumar, is an actor and politician who began his career as a child actor in the Tamil film, Sri Valli.
Born 1949
Koppillil Radhakrishnan is a space scientist who headed ISRO between November 2009 and December 2014 as Chairman of the Space Commission, Secretary of the Department of Space, and the Chairman of ISRO.
Born 1950
Leena Chandavarkar is a former actress who earlier appeared in Bollywood and now appears in reality shows.
Born 1959
Akkineni Nagarjuna is an actor, producer, TV presenter, and entrepreneur, primarily known for his works in Telugu-language films.
Born 1974
Richa Sharma is a film playback and devotional singer.
Born 1975
Binnu Dhillon is an actor known for his comic and other roles in the Punjabi cinema.
Born 1977
Vishal Krishna Reddy is a film actor and producer who works for Tamil cinema. He is best known for his roles in action films and also produces films under his production company, Vishal Film Factory.
Born 1991
Virdhawal Vikram Khade is a swimmer who competed in the men’s 50, 100, and 200 meters Freestyle swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Died 1952
Saint Euphrasia Eluvathingal was a Carmelite nun of the Syro-Malabar Church in Kerala.
Died 1975
Adinath Lahiri, a leading geologist, passed away.
Died 1976
Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, a great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh.
Died 1982
Shree Maa Anandmayee of universal fame passed away. Her body was laid to rest at Shree Anandamayee Ashram in Kankhal.
Died 1991
Swami Parijnanashram III was the 10th guru of the Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin community.
Died 1994
Tusharkanti Ghosh, world-famous Indian journalist, passed away.
Died 2007
Banarsi Das Gupta was a politician who served as the 4th CM of Haryana. He was a renowned freedom fighter.
Died 2008
Jayshree Gadkar was a star of Marathi cinema from the 1950s to the 1980s. She also worked in several Hindi movies.
Died 2014
Björn Waldegård, Swedish race car driver (b. 1943)
Died 2016
Gene Wilder, American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (b. 1933)
Died 2018
James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1936)
Died 2018
Paul Taylor, American choreographer (b. 1930)