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Historical Event on 9/29/1991
Ustad Yunus Hussain Khan, famous singer of 'Agra Gharana', passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/15/1913 | Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. (13 or 15) |
| 9/17/1876 | Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay was born in Debanandpur village. |
| 8/29/1976 | Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh. |
| 12/23/1995 | 400 people, mostly children and their parents, die in a fire that broke out during the Annual Day celebrations of DAV Public School. The fire was suspected to be caused due to electric short-circuit in Mandi Dabwali, Haryana. |
| 3/16/1939 | Subroto Mukherjee became the first Indian Officer to command a squadron when he took over No.1. |
| 5/18/1998 | India talks with the US on the nuclear tests. |
| 5/31/1970 | Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to. |
| 3/7/1998 | A. B. Vajpayee is elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party. |
| 12/20/1990 | India and Pakistan agree not to attack each other's nuclear installations. |
| 12/4/1910 | Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of India (1987-92), was born. |
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