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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 11/28/1704 |
Jacob Mossel, Governor General (Dutch East Indies), was born. |
| 11/28/1890 |
Mahatma Jyotirao Govindrao Phule died. He led a selfless life devoted to the upliftment of the lower classes of the Hindu society. He also started school for girls and for downtroddens and untouchables. He was assissted in education field by his wide Savitri Bai. |
| 11/28/1945 |
Australia Services draw second Victory Test Cricket vs India at Calcutta. |
| 11/28/1956 |
Chou En- lai, Chinese Prime Minister, came to India. |
| 11/28/1962 |
K. C. Dey, well-known famous blind singer of Bengal, died. |
| 11/28/1967 |
Pandurang Mahadev Bapat ""Senapati Bapat"", revolutionary and social reformer, passed away at the age of 89. He led the famous ""Mulshi Satyagraha"" and played a significant role in the struggle for Samyukta Maharashtra and took part in Goa liberation movement. |
| 11/28/1990 |
President's rule imposed in Assam. Assembly kept in suspended animation. United Liberation Front of Assam and National Socialist Council of Nagaland banned. |
| 11/28/1990 |
Union Cabinet approves re-induction of Airbus A-320 in the domestic sector. |
| 11/28/1993 |
JRD Tata, 89, passed away in Geneva. |
| 11/28/1997 |
Seven-month-old United Front government, headed by Prime Minister I.K Gujral, bows out of office. |
| 11/28/1998 |
The Congress(I) wins the Assembly elections in Delhi, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. |
| 11/28/1999 |
Senior Awami League leader Mohammed Anwar Sheikh is killed and his wife and daughter-in-law are seriously injured in a militant attack on his house in Kashmir. |
| 11/28/1999 |
The Vajpayee Government seeks support on major economic issues during the winter session at Parliament. |
| 11/28/2000 |
Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Communications Minister, launches his political outfit 'Janashakti' at a rally in New Delhi. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 04/27/1997 | CBI decides to prosecute Bihar CM Laloo Prasad Yadav, former CM Dr. Jagannath Mishra, Union Minister Chandra Deo Prasad Verma and 53 others in the Rs. 950 crore fodder scam case. |
| 05/02/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 04/17/1990 | Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people. |
| 05/19/1904 | Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world. |
| 02/14/1924 | Ikramullah (Ikram Sagri) Khan, famous Hindi poet, was born at Rehli in Madhya Pradesh. |
| 09/02/1992 | Shripad Deshpande, senior journalist, passed away. |
| 05/01/1977 | Janata Party was established. |
| 03/14/1997 | Border Security Force discovers a 34-metre long tunnel in the Ajnala Sub-sector of the Punjab border with Pakistan. |
| 12/31/1984 | Rajiv Gandhi was sworn is as the 6th Prime Minister of India. He succeeded his mother Indira Gandhi. He became the Prime Minister of India for a second time and first time after elections. |
| 01/14/1758 | Emperor of England's charter allowed the East India Company to keep to any booty taken in war against the enemies of the king and the company. The confisticated goods, after the war, could be kept with them. |
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