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Historical Event on 1/29/1999
Alok Kumar of Punjab defeated Devendra Joshi of Maharashtra at the IIT complex at New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/24/1993 | Six of Memon family escape to Karachi. |
| 1/12/1990 | Upper age limit for Civil Services Examination raised from 26 to 28 years. |
| 2/13/1994 | Yashwant Narsingh Kelkar, senior historian and journalist in Maharashtra, passed away. |
| 6/3/1977 | K. Brahmananda Reddi elected President of the Indian National Congress. |
| 9/27/1972 | Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, passed away at the age of 80 at Bangalore. |
| 1/14/1948 | First issue of Marathi daily newspaper 'Loksatta' was published. |
| 6/6/1890 | Gopinath Bardoloi, architect of modern Assam, freedom fighter and leader, was born. |
| 1/1/1934 | Raju V. Vikram, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1984-87, was born at Karnataka. |
| 12/27/1929 | Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the national flag at the All India National Congress session held in Lahore. They resolved for ""Purna Swaraj"" (complete independence) on the instance of Gandhiji, the Viceroy of India that time was Lord Irwin. |
| 2/10/1946 | Gandhiji revives 'Harijan' and allied group of weekly journals. |
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