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Historical Event on 2/28/1859
Surbhi, farmer lady of Dholi Bavli, Central India, who was arrested for helping her son Bheema Nayak in the freedom movement and was jailed in Mahamandaleshwar jail, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/20/1904 | Charles Freer Andrews came to India as a Christian Missionary and joined the staff of St. Stephen's College in Delhi. |
| 4/16/1997 | G. Kishenchand, former Indian Test cricketer, died. |
| 4/16/1997 | Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2). |
| 1/5/1988 | India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 7/23/1996 | R. Bhattacharji was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He is heading this office till date. |
| 10/21/1981 | Kerala under central rule. |
| 4/17/1941 | Office of Price Administration was formed which handled the rationing of essential commodities. |
| 11/5/1915 | Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born. |
| 1/9/1889 | Dr. Vrindavanlal Varma, famous Hindi writer and social reformer, was born in Jhansi. He mainly wrote historical and social novels, most famouse being ""Mriganainee"". |
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