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Historical Event on 4/28/1936
Abdul Rashid 'Fida' (Kishtwari), great poet, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/23/1997 | 50,000 miners in Orissa lose jobs as 57 mines are closed down. |
| 5/13/1994 | Renowned environmentalist Maurice F. Strong chosen for the Jawaharlal Nehru International Understanding award for 1992. |
| 2/14/1996 | Supreme Court orders CBI probe into a housing scam in which 8,700 govt. houses were allotted out-of-turn. |
| 9/5/1988 | The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill. |
| 2/2/1978 | Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, the first receipent of ""Gyanpeeth Puraskar (Award)"", and many other awards, passed away. |
| 3/28/1997 | India and Pakistan, represented by Salman Haider and Shamshad Ahmed, Foreign Secretaries, hold official talks on issues at New Delhi. |
| 1/15/1888 | Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter and President of the Punjab, was born at Amritsar. |
| 1/3/1997 | Congress President Sitaram Kesri elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party, and Sharad Pawar appointed leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha. |
| 3/26/1996 | The 3-day old Hazratbal shrine crisis ends, as the militants holed up in the shrine come out of it. |
| 2/8/1986 | Sister Alphonsa was beatified by his Holiness Pope John-ll at Kottayam. She was the first woman from India to be raised to this honour. (19-7-96). |
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