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Historical Event on 10/28/1946

Gandhiji leaves for Calcutta. Riots break out in Bihar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/28/1946Saint Eknath, bhagwatbhakt, passed away.
8/23/1947Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was sworn is as the Deputy Prime Minister of India.
6/1/1944Liladhar Jagudi, well known Hindi poet, passed away.
10/28/1996Press Council of India to set up a 5-member committee headed by Chairman P.B. Sawant to inquire into the attack on journalists outside the New Delhi residence of Kanshi Ram.
7/27/1998The Centre announces a hefty hike in the pay scales of university and college teachers.
3/22/1907Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament.
7/21/1935Establishment 'Mumabi Marathi Sahitya Sangh'.
10/10/1998Dr. Justice Adarsh Sein Anand was sworn in Chief Justice of India.
8/4/2000Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and the last member of the British royal family to bear the title ''Empress of India'', celebrated her 100th birthday.
4/15/1992D. T. Lakdawala, former member of Planning Commission, passed away.