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Historical Event on 9/29/1959

Arati Saha successfully swam the English Channel. She was the first Asian lady to achieve the feat.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/17/1976Urban Ceilings Act comes into force.
1/6/1987Establishment of 'Maharashtra Journalist Fund' Trust.
4/2/1970Privy purses and special privileges of former Indian rulers abolished.
6/5/1994India test-fires a missile capable of reaching targets in China.
9/4/1952India returns Peking's famine-relief aid, saying it had political strings attached.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
7/17/1974J.P. Narain leads an agitation for dissolution of the Bihar Assembly.
10/2/1999Home Minister L. K. Advani said that the BJP was ready to provide letters of support.
12/29/1997Sonia Gandhi stepped into active politics.
2/26/1996Sahib Singh Verma sworn in as Delhi's second CM.