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Historical Event on 1/28/1992

Umanath Vachaspati, Magsesey Award winner, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/4/1960Washington, Ike signs wheat pact with India for largest U.S. food sale.
10/3/1997Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas.
3/7/199922 persons are killed and six injured when an AN-32 transport aircraft of the IAF crashes at Pappankulam near Indira Gandhi International Airport in south-west Delhi.
2/4/1974Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924.
4/4/1997World Bank Atlas for 1997 put India as world's fifth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity estimated around $1318 trillion.
7/14/1999Arvind Dave is appointed Governor of Arunachal Pradesh.
4/26/1999India's Atanu Lahiri and Bhagyashree Thipsay won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Commonwealth chess championship in Bikaner.
9/26/1919Rotary Club's first Indian meeting was held.
1/30/1971Indian Airline's Fokker Friendship aircraft in India was hijacked to Lahore.
12/1/1947India all out for 58 vs Australia at Gabba.