|
|
Historical Event on 8/28/1976
Second World Hindi Conference held in Mauritius.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/18/1985 | Assam Assembly dissolved (18). |
| 2/8/1936 | Manohar Shankar Hardikar, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests India vs West Indies in 1958-59), was born in Baroda. |
| 5/5/1932 | Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, passed away. |
| 11/29/2000 | India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad. |
| 3/25/1958 | Yograjsingh Bhagsingh Bhundel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler early 80's), was born in Chandigarh. |
| 12/10/1952 | World's first official Family Planning programme launched in India. |
| 2/22/1997 | Jockey Mark Gallagher shot at and injured in Bangalore. |
| 2/12/1993 | Kapil Dev crosses 400 wickets and 5000 runs in test cricket. |
| 10/22/1947 | There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government. |
| 2/14/1985 | Dr. Nagendra Singh elected World Court Chief. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
