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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India

DateEvent Name
04/28/1701 John Norris of Britain met Aurangjeb at Parnela in South India.
04/28/1740 Baji Rao I aka Thorle BajiRao Peshwa passed away at Raverkhedi near the banks of the Narmada river near Khargon and his son Balaji Baji Rao was placed on his father's throne as the Peshwa.
04/28/1848 Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Das was born in Calcutta district in Orissa.
04/28/1936 Abdul Rashid 'Fida' (Kishtwari), great poet, was born.
04/28/1943 Netaji Subash Chandra Bose aligned the Japanese-German submarine at Medagaskar.
04/28/1945 Ajit Manohar Pai, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1969), was born in Bombay.
04/28/1952 The war between Japan and India ended.
04/28/1974 Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta, famous economist, politician and journalist, passed away.
04/28/1986 Malayalam film `Chidambaram' directed by G. Aravindan wins best feature film award and Shyam Benegal bags the Best Director award for the Hindi film 'Trikal'.
04/28/1992 Vinayak Krishna Gokak, famous Kannad poet and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away.
04/28/1993 Troops storm police complex in Srinagar and free officials from the rebelling 2000 policemen.
04/28/1996 EC orders re-polling in 69 booths in four states.


 


Other Historical Dates and Events
10/30/1997Kerala Kaumudi's Kannur edition and Internet edition begin.
05/02/1908Police in Calcutta discover a cache of explosives for use in alleged anarchist plot.
06/10/1987Jeevan, famous Hindi film actor, died.
02/12/1990The Berlin Wall is taken down February 12. Germany is reunited over the next year. Warsaw Pact is dissolved.
12/14/199410 IAF personnel of the first batch were reinducted and the last batch left on 20th Dec 94. Cpl Nasir was left as a lying casualty due to injuries sustained in the RPG explosion.
08/25/2000Veerappan seeks release of 121 prisoners, including 51 booked under TADA at the Mysore prison and compensation to victims of STF excesses 
02/14/1658Dara Sulaiman Shukoh was defeated in the struggle for Delhi throne Shuja's in the battle of Bahadurpur near Varanasi.
05/23/1931Sharad Joshi, famous Hindi poet, playwright and journalist, was born.
01/23/1814Sir Alexander Canningham, Indian Archeologist, was born.
11/11/1793English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies.