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Historical Event on 12/28/1896
In the Indian National Congress, Vande Mataram was first sung in Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/2/1948 | Defence Minister announces the establishment of the National War Academy in Kharakvasla, Poona. |
| 2/19/1855 | U. V. Swaminathan Iyyer, mahamahopadhyay Tamil author, was born. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 6/6/1981 | The worst-ever railway accident took place in Bihar when a train plunged in Samastipur river. |
| 6/30/1817 | Dadabhai Navroji, veteran leader and industrialist, died. |
| 11/17/1994 | North Eastern Council decides to include Sikkim in the Council. |
| 4/5/1848 | Satara kingdom came to end. |
| 12/23/1920 | King George V signs Home Rule Act. |
| 7/31/1658 | Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor. |
| 8/25/1997 | 10,000 people residing in low lying areas in Gujarat shifted to safer places following incessant rains for two days. Death toll mounts to 265. |
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