ON 29 APRIL IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on April 29, 2019
1848: Birth of Ravi Varma, Indian painter who died on 2 October 1906
https://www.culturalindia.net/indian-art/painters/raja-ravi-varma.html
http://www.google.fr/search?q=Ravi+Varma&hl=fr&rlz=1G1ACAW_FRFR414&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=dsi5Ta3oH8mp8APX54xY&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1093&bih=538
1936: Birth of Zubin Mehta, Indian-born conductor
http://www.zubinmehta.net/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quhYowwaMxo
1951: A Tibetan delegation to the Chinese government is presented with a treaty draft regarding the Chinese occupation of Tibet which will be singned on May 23
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_Point_Agreement_for_the_Peaceful_Liberation_of_Tibet
1954: China and India agree on the Panchsheel Agreement known as the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-017-6555-8_3
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/4332.html
1965: Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches seventh rocket in their Rehber series
1978: In Afghanistan, the communist rebels claim victory
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/29/newsid_2970000/2970317.stm
1991: In Bangladesh, a cyclone with winds of around 155mph kills at least 138,000 people and leaves as many as 10 million homeless
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Bangladesh_cyclone
2009: The foreign ministers of France and Britain urge the Sri Lankan government to call a truce in the war with Tamil Tiger separatists to allow tens of thousands of civilians to escape
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/04/200942944447881718.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8023925.stm
2013: The Afghan president has admitted his office received secret payments from the US, but says the amounts were small and used legitimately
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22343030