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Historical Event on 6/28/1975

As a response to anti-government demonstrations, India imposes the toughest press censorship since independence.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/1/1996Supreme Court frees CBI from the control of PM Rao and directs that CBI would take no instruction or permission from or report to any authority personally interested in or likely to be affected by the investigation into the hawala case.
10/18/1983Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer 55 Tests for India, 3208 runs @ 39.12, died.
10/16/1968Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
12/30/1865Rudyard Kipling, famous English litterateur and author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), was born in Bombay.
5/30/1955Narayan Malhar Joshi, father of Indian Worker's Movement, passed away.
2/7/2000Kamaluddin Ahmed, former APCC(I) president and four times Congress MP, joins the BJP.
8/20/1997Premananda, self-styled godman, sentenced by Pudukottai district and sessions court to life imprisonment for two terms and a fine of Rs. 66.4 lakhs for rape of 13 inmates of his ashram and murder of a male inmate.
5/21/1990PM V. P. Singh clears the Rs. 13,000 crore Sardar Sarovar Project over the river Narmada.
2/15/1976The Division of Publication & Information was established in I.C.M.R. Headquarters.
3/12/1991Lok Sabha Speaker Rabi Ray admits to an Opposition-sponsored motion for removal of the Supreme Court Judge V. Ramaswamy for alleged misappropriation of public funds, and sets up a three-Judge committee to investigate.