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Historical Event on 02/28/1580
The first visit of Jesuit Priest of Goa in the Court of Emperor Akbar at Fatehpur Sikri.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/5/1997 | Railway ministry doubles compensation amounts from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs.4 lakh to victims of railway accidents and other untoward incidents. |
| 1/14/1896 | Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance Minister of India, was born. |
| 9/10/2000 | Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship. |
| 9/10/2000 | Iltutmish, father of Radiya Sultan, died in Delhi. |
| 9/2/1992 | Delhi High Court indicts CBI in Bofors case; FIR and letters rogatory quashed. |
| 2/26/1858 | Diwan Maniram and Piali Barua were hanged. (Grandson of Purandara Simha, the last Ahom king of Assam). |
| 4/7/2000 | The Delhi police unearth a multicrore cricket betting and match- fixing racket involving five South African cricketers, including the captain Hansie Cronje. A Delhi-based Indian operator Rajesh Kalra put behind bars. |
| 7/12/1932 | The 16,000-foot Shyok ice dam in the Himalayas bursts flooding the Indus Valley at Kashmir. |
| 4/6/1956 | Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1976-92),was born in Rajapur, Maharashtra. He has received Arjun Award (1981) and Padmashree (1987). |
| 9/19/1937 | Vishnu Narayan Matkhande passed away. |
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