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Historical Event on 9/29/1998
ISRO successfully launches its largest sounding rocket, Rohini (RH-560 mk, 11 total payload, 127 kg).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/10/1978 | Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'. |
| 8/1/1988 | Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1991. |
| 8/8/1990 | Violent protests rock Bihar against Mandal Commission Report implementation. |
| 12/22/1977 | Nalinibala Devi, Assamese poet, passed died. |
| 5/31/1987 | Daman and Diu to remain as union territories after Goa becomes the 25th state of India. |
| 5/9/1917 | Fighting breaks out at Kharkwasta in the north-west frontier of India. |
| 2/19/1992 | The ruling Congress party wins local elections boycotted by Sikhs in Punjab. |
| 5/17/1992 | R. Venkataraman, President, leaves for a six-day visit to China. |
| 12/15/1912 | Aspy Merwan, engineer and who became the Air Marchal of India, was born. |
| 2/14/1976 | Urban Land Ceiling Regulation Act comes into force. |
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