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Historical Event on 1/28/1900
General K.M. Cariappa, first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, was born at Sanivara, Santhai (Coorg).
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| 7/31/1992 | Sitar maestro Pt. Ravishankar wins the Magsaysay Award. |
| 2/8/1994 | Gopalrao Deuskar, internationally famed painter, passed away. |
| 5/14/1992 | LTTE banned in India. |
| 3/19/1982 | Acharya J. B. Kripalani, writer, nationalist, parliamentarian, founder of Kissan Mazdoor Dal and president of Indian National Congress in 1946, passed away at the age of 94. |
| 9/13/1928 | Shridhar Pathak, prominent Hindi writer, passed away. |
| 4/10/1997 | Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world. |
| 10/20/1999 | Quiet start to the 13th Lok Sabha. |
| 5/1/1994 | Six leading Akali factions dissolved to form a new party, the Shiromani Akali Dal-Amritsar, which wanted a 'Sikh State'. |
| 9/12/1898 | Baldev Prasad Mishra, Hindi litterateur, was born. |
| 4/24/1966 | Margashayam Venkataramana, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 1989), was born in Secunderabad. |
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