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Historical Event on 8/28/1879
Battle at Ulundi, Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/8/1958 | Lord Canning declared that since peace was established, it is better known as end of Indian Mutiny, 1857. |
| 9/29/1996 | Water from Krishna river (AP) released for Madras. |
| 9/10/1976 | An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan. |
| 2/8/1985 | P. K. Kaul was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 22-08-1986. |
| 9/1/1989 | Yasser Arafat chosen for the 1988 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding. |
| 9/24/1629 | Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies. |
| 2/1/1894 | Chitravshastri, Marathi dictionary creator, was born. |
| 3/18/1896 | Pandit Kunjilal Dubey, freedom fighter, educationalist and politician, was born at Amgaon, District Narsinghpur. |
| 8/18/1991 | 12 LTTE militants commit suicide. |
| 12/25/1997 | India-Sri Lanka one-day cricket match at Indore abandoned after three overs owing to a bad state of the pitch, which was a rare occurance. |
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