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Historical Event on 8/29/1976

Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/4/1942Japanese Navy destroyed 3 British battleship to sink in the Bay of Bengal during the Second World War.
4/12/1983Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' wins 8 Oscars.
2/7/1931Shila Kaul, the chief minister of New Delhi, was born.
10/30/1977One hundred thousand Tamil Hindu tea-pickers, who were expatriated from Sri Lanka, are shipped to Madras, South India.
6/18/1995The latest deaths in northern India's hottest weather this century bring the death toll to 525 as temperatures hit 113¦F (45¦C) in New Delhi.
8/15/1997K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta.
11/7/1971India admits forces entered Bangladesh to silence artillery.
12/6/1907Revolutionaries looted Chingaripota station.
4/4/1994Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns.
7/25/1986Sikh extremist kill 16 Hindus in Muhktsar India.