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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
4/24/1858Kunwar Singh, revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, passed away. He fought his last battle near Jagdishpur, Bihar on April 23, 1858 and defeated the Britishers but was deeply wounded. He also organised the national rebels.
4/15/1919British troops kill 400 Indians, who were demonstrating against the British rule at Amritsar for the forced marshall law on Punjab.
7/20/1924Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar established Bahishkrit Hitkarni Sabha.
6/26/1991Sharad Pawar joins Union Cabinet as Defence Minister.
6/20/1948Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union.
12/14/1901Gandhiji reaches Rajkot via Porbunder.
4/30/1888Hailsones kill 246 in Moradabad.
8/23/1994Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan possessed a nuclear bomb and warned that an attack by India could start a nuclear war in Pakistan.
4/8/1774Narayan Rao's posthumous son, Madhav Rao, was seen as a challenge to Raghunath Rao only when he was 10 days old.
4/5/1993G. V. Iyer's Sanskrit film 'Bhagavad Geeta was adjudged the best film at the National Film Awards.