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Historical Event on 9/29/1998

ISRO successfully launches its largest sounding rocket, Rohini (RH-560 mk, 11 total payload, 127 kg).

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/13/1990An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka.
11/15/1982S. N. Katkar, famous poet and former editor of 'Yugvani', died.
4/5/1848Satara kingdom came to end.
10/23/1999The chargesheet in Bofors case is a legal triumph, said Mr. Advani. But Congress(I) calls it as a political vendetta.
6/8/1929Ventappa Musandra Muddiah, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 2 Tests 1959-61), was born in Bangalore.
2/16/1933Surya Sen Masterda, revolutionary freedom fighter, who attacked the Armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army and was underground on Jalalabad Hills, was arrested.
3/21/1979Morarji Desai, PM, inaugurated the Backward Classes Commission in New Delhi.
12/21/2000Women's Bill put off again.
12/5/1991The government reduces visa fees for tourists intending to visit India.
4/8/1997India creates history by entering the semi-finals of the 12th Jawaharlal Nehru Gold Cup international football series for the first time after holding Ghana 2-2 at Kochi.