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Historical Event on 1/29/1997
Fire engulfs most of the three top floors of the Express Towers, skyrise building owned by Indian Express group in Mumbai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/12/1941 | Chinese engineers leave to survey a route for the proposed 1,000-mile-long highway from Ningyuan, China to Assam, India. |
| 11/2/1871 | Kashinath Raghunath Mitra, famous editor of monthly magzine 'Manoranjan', was born. |
| 1/21/1969 | First India built electronic digital computer commissioned. |
| 9/9/2000 | Venus Williams wins the women's singles in the U.S. Open championship. |
| 2/7/1983 | Eastern News Agency was established in Calcutta . |
| 9/18/2000 | Prasar Bharati issues a notification making it compulsory for cable operators to telecast regional channels of Doordarshan on prime band, in addition to DD-1 and DD-2, in their respective states. |
| 5/20/1996 | Janaki Ramachandran, chief minister of Tamil Nadu (1988), passed away. |
| 8/30/1773 | Narayan Rao Peshwa was murdered by his uncle Raghunath Rao, also called Raghoba, who then proclaimed himself the Peshwa. |
| 6/6/1986 | Militant Sikhs in Amritsar call for the murder of Surjit Singh Barnala, Chief Minister of Punjab and J.F. Ribeiro, the Chief of Police. |
| 3/1/1968 | Salil Ashok Ankola, cricketer (Indian pace bowler one Test 1989), was born in Solapur. |
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