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Historical Event on 8/28/1997
Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be allowed to contest elections even if an appeal against the conviction was pending in a higher court.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/24/2000 | Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways. |
| 4/23/1994 | Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait, former Indian Union Muslim League president, floats a new party - the Indian National League. |
| 4/29/1848 | Raja Ravi Verma, famous classic, prolific painter and great Indian Artist, was born in Kilimanoor, Kerala. |
| 2/19/1993 | German Chancellor Helmut Kohl receives the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding from the President. |
| 5/28/1925 | Awadh Kishore Narain, educationist, was born. |
| 5/28/1925 | Jalal'ud-din Firuz Khalji establishes the Khalji dynasty at Delhi. |
| 9/3/2000 | National Cricket Academy (NCA) wins the MRF Buchi Babu Cricket tournament in Chennai. |
| 2/14/1628 | 5th Mughal Emperor Shahjahan was crowned. |
| 7/1/1821 | Daily newspaper 'Mumbai Samachar' was published. |
| 7/25/1970 | Pillai A. Thanu, former Chief Minister of Kerala, passed away. |
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