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Historical Event on 8/28/1997

Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be allowed to contest elections even if an appeal against the conviction was pending in a higher court.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/5/1793Mir Kasim lost To Britishers near Rajmahal in battle of Udaynala.
7/16/1931C. T. Studd, 69, died. He was an English missionary, one of the 'Cambridge Seven,' who worked on the mission field in China, India and Central Africa.
5/1/1983Amravati University established.
11/25/1995Namibian PM Hoge S. Geingob arrives in New Delhi.
2/1/1831The first Fine Arts Exhibition by Brush Club was held in a Public Library of Calcutta.
7/9/1999Ashok Mitra (82), noted writer, academician and former bureaucrat, died in Calcutta.
1/1/1973Indian General Insurance Corporation nationalised.
1/18/1938The last batch of the political prisioners sailed back to the mainland from the Cellular Jail.
2/24/1786Charles Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India.
8/4/1979Indian Airlines AVRO-748 crashes in to a hill near Bombay.