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Historical Event on 12/29/1885
A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.

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12/10/1936	England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI.
11/24/1930	Chandrakant Trimbak Patankar, cricketer ( wicket keeper in one Test India vs NZ 1955-56), was born in Pen, Maharashtra.
8/8/1967	Central government, for the first time since independence, suffered a token defeat in the Lok Sabha.
8/13/1795	Ahilyabai Holkar passed away at the age of 70.
6/6/1981	The worst-ever railway accident took place in Bihar when a train plunged in Samastipur river.
4/12/1987	V. P. Singh resigns as Defence Minister of India, K. C. Pant appointed in his place.
9/8/1947	There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.
6/30/1999	The first ever direct bus service between India and Bangladesh gets delayed due to heavy rain.
12/10/1878	Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great social reformer, ardent patriot, incisive thinker and eminent literateur was born at Hosur in Tamil Nadu. He was the first Indian Governor General of independent India and popularly known as 'Rajaji'.
4/30/1958	Shiekh Abdulla taken into custody.

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Historical Event on 12/29/1885 A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.

Historical Event on 12/29/1885
A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.