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Historical Event on 9/29/1930

Ramnath Baburao Kenny, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for India in 1950's), was born in Bombay.

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3/29/1869Sir Edwin Lutyens, Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, was born.
10/11/1991Resident Editor of Nagpur Times Ramnarayan Dube assassinated.
8/14/1920Rushikesh Mulgaonkar, Air Chief Marshal (1976-78), was born.
9/28/1984First floodlights lit ODI between India and Australia held outside of Australia at New Delhi.
8/15/1947Sir Cyril Radcliffe Award on the new boundaries of West Punjab, East Punjab, West Bengal, East Bengal and Assam.
4/21/1938Muhammad Iqbal, famous Urdu poet, passed away.
2/2/1959Indira Gandhi was elected the president of the ruling Congress Executive Party. Thereby Congress spilt,and leftist formed Swantantra Party.
8/18/1990President R Venkataraman presented the colours to the Officers Training Academy in recognition of their services to the Nation.
10/1/1997Bus with 70 people fell into a stream near Cuddappah.
12/16/1999Michael Johnson's 400m world record (43.18s) set up in the Seville World championship was ratified by IAAF. Other records also ratified were Kenyan Noah Ngeny's 1000m mark (2 11.96, Reiti, Italy) and Moroccan Hicham el Guerrouj's 2000m (4 44.79, Berlin).