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Historical Event on 8/28/1896
Firak Gorakhpuri, Urdu poet and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/10/1977 | Jahangir Khan, famous musician, passed away. |
| 1/15/1998 | Gulzari Lal Nanda, Gandhian freedom fighter and twice acting Prime Minister in 1964 and 1966, died in Ahmedabad at the age of 100 years. |
| 2/21/1952 | The XV Indian Olympic Games in Madras. |
| 2/4/1974 | Satyendra 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. |
| 10/16/1999 | Dr. Najma Heptulla, Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, is elected president of the 138-nation Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). |
| 6/5/1989 | Missile `Trishul' tested successfully. |
| 12/27/1977 | The Congress party splits into two factions, one supporting and one opposing Indira Gandhi. |
| 12/17/1978 | Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died. |
| 8/10/1993 | Election Commission withdrew controversial order. By-polls to be held before 10. |
| 1/11/1986 | The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary. |
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