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Historical Event on 1/28/1894
Anandibai Prabhakar Jayawant, famous Hindi writer, was born at Baroda.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/10/1999 | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village. |
3/17/1943 | Indian troops retreat from Rathedaung to Buthidaung in the face of a renewed Japanese offensive on the Arakan front in Burma. |
7/4/1789 | British East India Company signed a treaty with the Nizam of Hydrabad and Peshwa of Pune against Tipu Sultan, King of Mysore, on the understanding that a cavalry of 10,000 would attack Tipu's territory and the conquered area would be divided amongst the three. |
10/12/1990 | Government of India announces a 15\% cut in oil consumption, exempting LPG and kerosene. |
4/22/1996 | National Stock Exchange launches a new equity index - the NSE 50. |
1/15/1971 | Dinanath Damodar Dalal, great artist, passed away. |
5/18/1999 | R. B. Sapre, India's first national chess champion, died in Mumbai. |
6/5/1984 | Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab. |
5/27/1964 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister and architect of modern India, passed away at the age of 74. |
11/28/1997 | Seven-month-old United Front government, headed by Prime Minister I.K Gujral, bows out of office. |
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