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Historical Event on 5/29/1965

Indian Everest team sets a world record by climbing the Everest for the fourth time.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/1932Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years.
6/2/1990Union Government set up a tribunal to settle the Cauvery water issue between Tamil Nadu & Karnataka.
12/23/1900Kalicharan Patnaik, famous Orria dramatist, poet and journalist, was born.
5/18/1966Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists.
4/5/1957The first Communist ministry in a state was installed in Kerala.
4/16/2000India wins the second leg of the pre-olympic hockey tournament at Perth.
6/25/1994Dinsha Pirosha Madan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, died.
10/13/1998Salman Khan, Hindi film actor who was arrested on charges of killing protected wild animals near Jodhpur, is remanded to the custody of the Forest department.
2/11/1942Jamnalal Bajaj, greatest iIndustrialist, social reformer, freedom fighter and Gandhiwadi, passed away.
10/21/1999B. R. Chopra, filmmaker, gets the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.