|
|
Historical Event on 8/29/1998
Sachin Tendulkar receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Joginder Singh Saini receives the Dronacharya award, while several other leading sporstmen receive Arjuna award from President K.R. Narayanan in Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/1/1994 | Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 1/26/1931 | Gandhiji was unconditionally released from prison. |
| 7/29/1997 | India to revive 'Agni' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile programme. |
| 1/8/1906 | Howrah Railway Station, Calcutta, was inaugurated. |
| 10/3/1992 | Geet Sethi beats holder Mike Russel of Britain (2529-718) to become the first Indian to win the World Professional Billiards championship in Bombay. |
| 3/18/1896 | Pandit Kunjilal Dubey, freedom fighter, educationalist and politician, was born at Amgaon, District Narsinghpur. |
| 1/22/1998 | Second Lieutenant Punit Datta is posthumously selected for the nation's highest peace time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra. |
| 8/30/1994 | The ruling CPC-led Left Front captures large majority of gram panchayat seats in Tripura civic polls. |
| 5/8/1906 | Prannath Thapar, former General of India, was born. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
