Historical Events April 29.

1939: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose resigned from Congress.

1965: Pakistan successfully launched its seventh rocket.

1982: International Dance Day began.

1991: A severe cyclone in the southern Chittagong district of Bangladesh killed at least 138,000 people and left millions homeless.

1997: The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 entered into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.

Famous Birthdays April 29.

1848: Raja Ravi Varma, a celebrated Indian painter, and artist.

1867: Dr. Shankar Abaji Bhise, an Indian scientist. 

1891: Bharathidasan, a Tamil poet and writer rationalist.

1919: Ustad Allarakha Qureshi, an Indian tabla player.

1936: Zubin Mehta, an Indian conductor of Western and Eastern classical music. 

1958: Ramachandra Guha, an Indian writer.

1979: Ashish Nehra is an Indian cricket coach and former cricketer.

Death Anniversaries April 29.

1960: Bal Krishna Sharma Naveen, an Indian freedom activist, journalist, politician, and poet of Hindi literature. 

1980: Alfred Hitchcock, an English film director, producer, and screenwriter.

2006: JK Galbraith, a Canadian-American economist.

2020: Irrfan Khan, an Indian actor.