Historical Events -  June 29

1801: The first census was carried out in Britain.

1975: Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of the Apple I computer.

1986: Argentina won the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

2007: Apple Inc. released its first mobile phone, the iPhone.

2020: India banned 59 chinese app including Tiktok and uc browser.

Famous Birthdays– June 29

1908: Pratap Singh Rao Gaekwad, the last ruling Maharaja of Baroda.

1936: Buddhadeb Guha, a Bengali fiction writer.

1945: Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the fifth President of Sri Lanka.

1864: Ashutosh Mukherjee, a prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister, and mathematician.

1893: Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, an Indian scientist, and statistician. 

 

Death anniversaries June 29

1873: Michael Madhusudan Dutt, a Bengali poet, writer, and dramatist.

1895: Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist, and anthropologist.

1966: Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, an Indian mathematician, statistician, philologist, historian, and polymath.