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Historical Event on 1/29/1994

Air India and Indian Airlines converted into companies.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/4/1985Police inquiry said bombs caused Air India jet disaster in New Delhi.
1/29/1979Tamil Nadu Expess, India's first Jumbo passenger train, was flagged off from New Delhi Railway Station for Madras.
11/1/1996Three national parties (Indira Congress, Janata Party and Samata Party) to lose their recognition as national parties as they failed to get the minimum required support in the general election to the 11th Lok Sabha.
3/20/1952Anand Armitraj, great Indian tennis player (Brother of Vijay), was born.
7/21/1984Terrorists breach Bhakra canal in Punjab.
5/28/1968Bhagwan Gopinathji Bhan, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India. He has been called a ""jivanmukta"" (liberated soul) or ""Aghoreshwar"" and his spiritual state has been described as ""Shambhavi Avastha"" (state of Shiva), died. He was a great devotee of Shiva and Shakti and took intense "Sadhana". His disciples and devotees set up an ashram at Kharyar in Srinagar in his name.
5/22/1970Vijayanand Patnaik established political party `Utkar Congress'.
8/13/1997The contentious women's reservation bill put on the back burner with PM Gujral saying govt. would not push through such a major social legislation until there was a consensus on it.
6/13/1943Netaji Subhashchandra Bose started his journey from Germany to Tokyo by a submarine.
1/25/2000The Government awards Padma Vibhushan to R.K. Narayan, Dr.M.S. Gill; Padma Bhushan for Rajnikant and Padmashri for A.R. Rehman.