29th January – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

Today In History? 

Find out what happened on 29th January in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred 29th Jan

Veturi Sundararama Murthy   29 January 1936 – 22 May 2010), popularly known as Veturi, was a Telugu writer mostly popular for his film songs. His career in the Telugu film industry spanned more than four decades.
Meera Vasudevan (born 29 January 1982) is an Indian film actress and model, who has appeared in Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi and Telugu-language films. Meera was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra in a Tamil brahmin family as the eldest daughter to Vasudevan and Hemalatha
Divyank Turakhia (born January 29, 1982) is a serial entrepreneur. Turakhia started his first internet business in 1996 at the age of 14. He co-founded the Directi Group (www.directi.com) in 1998 as a two person start-up with $600 and became a millionaire at age 18
Jogendra Nath Mandal   January 29, 1904 — October 5, 1968), was one of the central and leading Founding Fathers of modern state of Pakistan, and legislator serving as country’s first minister of law and labor, and also was second minister of commonwealth and Kashmir affairs
Francis Leo Braganza (January 29, 1922 – December 21, 2011) was an Indian Jesuit priest. He was the bishop of the diocese of Baroda, Gujarat, from 1987 to 1997. Francis Braganza was born in Mumbai, India, ordained a priest on November 21, 1951 in the Society of Jesus

Death anniversaries on 29th January

Maharana Pratap or Pratap Singh (May 24, 1540 – January 19, 1597) was a Hindu Rajput ruler of Mewar, a region in north-western India in the present day state of Rajasthan. In popular Indian culture, Pratap is considered to exemplify the qualities like bravery and chivalry to which Rajputs aspire, especially in context of his opposition to the Mughal emperor Akbar
Gopinathan Velayudhan Nair, popularly known as Bharath Gopi (Malayalam: ഭരത് ഗോപി; 8 November 1937 – 29 January 2008) was an Indian film actor, producer, and director. He was one of the first actors to be associated with the New Wave cinema movement in Kerala
Mary Margaret (‘Mollie’) Kaye (21 August 1908 – 29 January 2004) was a British writer. Her most famous book was The Far Pavilions (1978). M. M. Kaye was born in Simla, India, and spent her early childhood and much of her early-married life there.
Pandari Bai  (1930 – January 29, 2003) was a prominent heroine of South Indian languages films mostly in Kannada and Tamil during the 1950s and 60s. She has the distinction of having acted as both heroine and mother to stalwarts such as Rajkumar and Sivaji Ganesan.
Ram Niwas Mirdha  (24 August 1924 – 29 January 2010) was an Indian politician from Rajasthan. He served as member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 1953 to 1967 and as speaker of the assembly from 1957 to 1967

Notable Events:

1597  Maharana Pratap Singh of Udaipur, great freedom fighter, soldier and revolutionary, passed away. His son Amar Singh succeeded him
1780   Hicky’s Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta
1781  First Newspaper, J.A.Hickey’s Bengal Gazette – January 29, 1781.
1853  Madhusudan Rao, modern writer in Oria language, was born.

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