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Historical Event on 3/29/1989

Central Institute of Fisheries Education gets the distinction of becoming the first Fisheries University in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/3/1971Indo-Pakistan war begins. On the same day National Emergency was declared by the President of India due to war between both the countries.
2/6/1994Indian Union Muslim League splits, G.M.Banatwala elected President in place of Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait.
2/22/1996Madanlal Khurana, Delhi CM, resigns (Hawala scandal).
7/9/1994Surendranath, Governor of Punjab, died.
8/9/1970Trailokyanath Chakravarty died in Delhi.
10/24/1904Lalchand Hirachand, famous industialist, was born.
1/4/1958Waverley John Anderson, Scottish viscount and Governor of Bengal, died at the age of 75.
2/17/1931Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"".
3/21/1971Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown.
10/31/1997Rushmi Chakravarthy makes it a double in the National hardcourt tennis in Mumbai.