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Historical Event on 8/29/1956

India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/31/1885St. Stephen's Hospital was opened. It was the first hospital for women and children at Delhi.
9/24/1998In his address to the UN General Assembly, PM Vajpayee said that India wouldl not come in the way of implementing CTBT and may sign it conditionally by September 1999.
9/24/1998Firuz Shah Bahmani died.
8/8/1949India concludes a treaty with Bhutan.
7/4/1933Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to one year imprisonment.
1/2/1990Capt. Nivedita Bhasin, 26, becomes the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft.
12/12/1921Gandhi organizes a complete boycott of Prince of Wales's visit to Allahabad.
4/22/1983Smt. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, visited ICMR Headquarters and held discussions with senior scientists of ICMR. ICMR revived research on indigenous drugs/traditional medicine with a new, disease-oriented approach and a Scientific Advisory Group on Traditional Medicine Research was constituted in 1983 but actual studies (Multicentric Clinical Trials, Centres for Advanced Research, Central Biostatistical Monitoring Unit etc.) were started in 1984-85.
8/15/1947Hindu-Muslim association in Calcutta.
4/14/1988Ashok Kumar, actor, recieved the Dada Saheb Phalke Award.