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Historical Event on 6/29/1999

An Indian High Commissioner member N. R. Doraiswamy is beaten up by Pakistani intelligence operatives.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/9/1986ICMR set up a network of Reference/Surveillance Centres for AIDS in almost all states of India.
11/18/1955Nicolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, top USSR Soviet leaders, first time came to New Delhi.
5/20/1991General Election (10th) of India begins.
3/3/1919Hari Narayan Apte, famous Marathi novelist, passed away.
2/19/1956Acharya Narendra Dev, the veteran freedom fighter, revolutionary, thinker and Chairman of PSP, passed away.
1/25/1954Manabendranath Roy, famous leader of socialist revolution, passed away at Dehradun.
4/1/1920S. Bhattacharya, cricket Test Umpire for 2 tests from 1963-70, was born in Delhi.
1/8/1992Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent.
5/2/1953Declaration by the PM that India was opposed to joining any power-block in the event of another war.
1/9/1922Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley.