Year 1708
British East India Company and New East India company merged.
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29 September: 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 September.
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Year 1755
Robert Lord Clive founded the British empire in India.
Year 1829
London Metropolitan Police was established.
Year 1836
Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established in Madras.
Year 1907
Labour MP James Keir Hardie accuses UK of running India 'like the Czar runs Russia'.
Year 1914
German cruiser Emden shells Madras.
Year 1914
Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries.
Year 1916
John D. Rockefeller became the first billionaire in the World.
Year 1917
The first school of the Indian Education Society, King George High School, was opened at Dadar, Mumbai.
Year 1938
The Munich conference began, attended by Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini.
Year 1941
During World War II, Nazis killed 33,771 Jews in Kyiv.
Year 1942
The British police shot Matangini Hazra, a 72-year old woman of Tamluk town in Midnapur district, when she was leading the flag at Tamluk in August movement procession.
Year 1950
The first automatic telephone answering machine was tested by the US Bell Telephone company.
Year 1959
Arati Saha successfully swam the English Channel. She was the first Asian lady to achieve the feat.
Year 1963
Birla galaxy launched in Kolkata, the first galaxy in Asia.
Year 1970
Union Carbide India Ltd in Bombay was commissioned Reclamation Plant Sewage Water of India for commercial use.
Year 1977
India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water.
Year 1981
A Delhi-Srinagar flight was hijacked by five Khalistan activists and was made to land in Lahore, Pakistan. 66 of the 117 passengers were set free on arrival in Lahore.
Year 1988
1988 Nobel Peace Prize for U.N. Peace-Keeping Forces.
Year 1992
Ramesh Krishnan and Leander Paes put India into the World round of 16 nations in the Davis Cup tennis by defeating Britain (4-1).
Year 1993
National Human Rights Commission set up.
Year 1994
Cable Television Regulation Ordinance issued.
Year 1997
IRS-1D, fourth Indian Remote Sensing satellite, successfully launched off by PSLV-CI, the country's first operational polar satellite launch vehicle, from Sriharikota. With this launch, India became a member of the exclusive club of nations capable of launching the heavier class of satellites.
Year 1998
ISRO successfully launches its largest sounding rocket, Rohini (RH-560 mk, 11 total payload, 127 kg).
Year 2008
The Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual brought the New York Stock Exchange index down 778 in a single day. The U.S. stock market was down the most.
Year 2012
Altamas Kabir becomes the 39th Chief Justice of India.
Year 2016
The Indian Army conducted a āSurgical Strikeā against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
Born 1725
Robert Clive, one of the founders of British empire in India and diplomat, was born.
Born 1786
Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of Mexico.
Born 1899
LĆ”szlĆ³ BĆrĆ³, Hungarian-Argentinian journalist and inventor, invented the ballpoint pen.
Born 1901
Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize-winning Italian-American physicist. He has been called the āarchitect of the nuclear ageā and the āarchitect of the atomic bombā.
Born 1906
Chhajju Ram, social worker and teacher, was born at Manawar, Chhamb.
Born 1925
Dr. Sharad Chandra Gokhale, Indian social worker.
Born 1928
Brajesh Mishra, Indian politician and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor (d. 2012)
Born 1932
Mehmood, Indian comedian, film director, and producer.
Born 1932
Hamid Dalwai, a Muslim social reformer, thinker, activist, and Marathi language writer in Maharashtra, India.
Born 1943
Lech Walesa, the first democratically-elected President of Poland, winner of the Nobel Prize.
Born 1947
S. H. Kapadia, Indian lawyer, judge, and politician, 38th Chief Justice of India (d. 2016)
Born 1951
Michelle Bachelet, Chileās first female president.
Born 1970
Kushboo, South Indian actress and producer
Died 855
Roman Emperor Lothar I.
Died 1560
King Gustav I of Sweden.
Died 1833
King Ferdinand VII of Spain.
Died 1913
Rudolf Diesel, a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine, and his suspicious death at sea.
Died 1925
Leon Bourgeois, French police officer, and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate.
Died 1927
Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate.
Died 1987
Henry Ford II, an American businessman.
Died 1991
Ustad Yunus Hussain Khan, famous singer of 'Agra Gharana', passed away.
Died 2004
Balamani Amma, an Indian poet.
Died 2010
Georges Charpak, Polish-born French physicist from a Jewish family who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.
Died 2013
S. N. Goenka, an Indian teacher of VipassanÄ meditation.
Died 2017
Tom Alter, Indian actor (b. 1950)