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Historical Event on 9/29/2000

The Government raises the prices of petroleum products across- the-board while cutting import and excise duties on crude oil, diesel and motor spirit (petrol).

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/29/2000Vasco De Gama departed with his fleet from Lisbon Harbour for a trip to India .
4/6/1664Abraham Shipmen died without taking charge of Bombay Islands from Portuguese.
10/28/1999The Delhi High Court stays TRAI's plan to introduce free incoming calls on mobile phones from November 1.
5/28/1963Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India).
6/15/1899Roy Chowdhury Devipasad, modern Indian sculptor and painter, was born.
7/19/1965Batukeshwar Dutt, great revolutionary, passed away.
9/13/1928Shridhar Pathak, prominent Hindi writer, passed away.
10/28/1911Mutyalswami Muniswami Naidu, cricket Test umpire, one test in 1951-52, was born at Vadodara, Gujarat.
6/23/1958Tamil leaders in Madras call on Nehru to lobby for better treatment of Ceylon's Tamil minority.
3/1/1908Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India.