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Historical Event on 10/29/1997

P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister, says Indian rupee will be made fully and freely convertible by year 2000.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/10/2000Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship.
8/10/1993Narayan Keshav Upasni, famous educationist, passed away.
2/7/1922Britain threatens crackdown in India to combat Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign.
1/24/2000Supreme Court imposes, with immediate effect, a ban on industries in Delhi and Haryana from discharging untreated industrial effluents into the Yamuna.
7/1/1997Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme `97 (VDIS) comes into effect.
7/12/1674Chhatrapati Shivaji signed a friendship treaty with East India Company.
7/18/1980Second Experimental launch of Space Launch Vehicle -3 (SLV-3) by Indian made 35 kilogram Rohini satellite (RS-1) successfully placed in orbit. It was used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. The launch took from Sriharikota and India became the sixth nation to put a satellite into orbit.
2/7/1995Cong-I Disciplinary Action Committee expels Arjun Singh from the primary membership for 6 years for anti-party activities.
8/8/1967Central government, for the first time since independence, suffered a token defeat in the Lok Sabha.
1/29/1997Fire engulfs most of the three top floors of the Express Towers, skyrise building owned by Indian Express group in Mumbai.