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Historical Event on 3/29/1857
Sepoy Mangal Pandey shot the first bullet of 1857 Indian mutiny in the barracks of Barrackpur near Calcutta against British Empire. This was the starting of the mutiny.
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| 5/19/1913 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India, was born. |
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| 5/26/1931 | One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras. |
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