The day of 29th December is recorded as an unprecedented event in the electoral history of independent India. On 29 December 1984, Congress registered the biggest victory in the history of independent India’s parliamentary elections by winning 401 out of 508 seats in the Lok Sabha.
Although Congress had fought this election on the issue of removing corruption, the party crossed the electoral hurdle riding on the wave of sympathy.
In the year 1984, on October 31, the then Prime Minister of the country Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own bodyguards and there was a wave of mourning in the entire country. In the elections held two months later, the people of the country voted for the Congress Party as a tribute to the late leader. The leadership of the party at that time was in the hands of his son Rajiv Gandhi.
The sequential details of other important events recorded on the date of December 29 in the history of the country and the world are as follows…
1530: Humayun took over the reins of the Mughal Empire from Babar.
1845: The US Congress approved the proposal to merge the Republic of Texas into America.
1942 : Rajesh Khanna, the first superstar of Hindi cinema, was born in Amritsar city of Punjab. His real name was Jatin Khanna. In the 1960s and 70s, Rajesh Khanna’s name was considered a guarantee of the film’s success. His 15 films one after the other became superhit. In these, he received the Filmfare Award for Best Actor for the films Sachcha Jhoota and Anand.
1951 : Officials of America’s Atomic Energy Commission made the first disclosure regarding electricity generation from nuclear energy.
1972: Construction work of Calcutta Metro station begins.
1975 : By implementing a historic law in Britain, equal rights were provided to men and women. Through law, it became mandatory to give women equal status to men in society and in jobs.
1977 : Open air theater ‘drive in’ opened in Bombay. It was described as the world’s largest open air theater at that time.
1984 : Under the leadership of Rajiv Gandhi, Congress registered the biggest victory in the history of parliamentary elections of independent India.
1998 : Leaders of the Khmer Rouge, the radical communist organization that controlled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979, publicly apologized for the killing of approximately 1.5 million people during their rule.
2001: The snow storm that started on December 24 in Buffalo, New York city of America stopped after five days and the excavation work of the city buried under an approximately 82 inch thick sheet of snow began.
2008: Israel launched a war against Hamas after three Israelis were killed in a rocket attack by Israel targeting Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip.
2015 : The World Health Organization declared the West African country Guinea free from Ebola. Two years ago there was an outbreak of this deadly disease in the country.
2023: Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) founder and veteran Tamil film actor Vijayakanth cremated with full state honors in Chennai.
2024: A passenger plane skidded off the runway at an airport in South Korea and crashed into a concrete wall, causing the plane to catch fire and kill 179 people.
