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Historical Event on 9/29/1993

National Human Rights Commission set up.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/7/1989Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years.
1/16/1919Nasikrao Khantadu Tirpude, former Duputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born.
8/1/1947Partition of India into India and Pakistan. Power transferred. Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan.
7/2/1993ONGC converted into corporation by ordinance.
12/11/1843Robert Koch, famous French scientist, was born in Clausthal village, Germany.
8/9/1963India is the first country to add its signature to the test-ban treaty at Moscow.
10/16/1999Dr. Najma Heptulla, Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, is elected president of the 138-nation Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
10/9/2000The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it.
4/3/1996Union Ministers P. Chidambaram and M. Arunachalam resign over the issue of revival of alliance between Cong (I) and AIADMK.
8/28/1879Battle at Ulundi, Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz.