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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India

DateEvent Name
05/28/1907 Purohit Dingambar Vinayak (Nanasaheb), leader in Maharashtra, was born.
05/28/1414 Khidr Khan Syed, Governor of Lahore, replaced Daulat Khan Lodi on Delhi's throne.
05/28/1883 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, was born at Bhagur village near Nasik.
05/28/1895 Bagal Bhai Madhavrao Khanderao, freedom fighter, author and painter, was born.
05/28/1903 Shantanu L. Kirloskar, great industrialist, was born at Sholapur (Maharashtra).
05/28/1923 Nandamuri Tarak Ramarao, film star, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and founder of Telgu Desam Party, was born. He has acted in many films including 'Patal Bhairavi'.
05/28/1925 Awadh Kishore Narain, educationist, was born.
05/28/1930 Bhagwaticharan Vohra, great revolutionary freedom fighter, died near the banks of Ravi river during a bomb testing.
05/28/1950 Bhagwaticharan, great revolutionary, passed away.
05/28/1963 Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India).
05/28/1964 A slow-moving funeral cortege containing the body of Jawaharlal Nehru inched through the streets of New Delhi today. A million and a half Indians lined the route to pay final respects to their beloved leader.
05/28/1965 Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad, India kills 400.
05/28/1966 B. S. Chawla was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 21-02-1973.
05/28/1968 Bhagwan Gopinathji Bhan, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India. He has been called a ""jivanmukta"" (liberated soul) or ""Aghoreshwar"" and his spiritual state has been described as ""Shambhavi Avastha"" (state of Shiva), died. He was a great devotee of Shiva and Shakti and took intense "Sadhana". His disciples and devotees set up an ashram at Kharyar in Srinagar in his name.
05/28/1970 All India Trade Union Congress was divided.
05/28/1972 Edward VIII, King of Great Britain/N Ireland/emperor (India 1936), passed away at the age of 77.
05/28/1978 The kiss comes to the Hindi screen in 'Love Sublime,' and is seen as a sign of what the govt. calls greater 'creative freedom,' after Indira Gandhi's authoritarian rule at Bombay.
05/28/1988 The first Cultural Exchange Programme was signed between India and China.
05/28/1989 Kerala diocese of Marathakavalli was the first Christian priest in India.
05/28/1992 Indo-US naval exercises begin.
05/28/1996 13-day-old BJP-led minority coalition govt. headed by A.B. Vajpayee quits at the end of a two-day debate on a motion of confidence.
05/28/1996 BJP Govt. incapable of assembling a majority after two weeks. A left-wing coalition takes over headed by new prime minister H. D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader and United Front coalition government. He held this office till 12 April 1997.
05/28/1997 Former Union Ministers Arjun Singh, N.D. Tiwari, R.K. Dhawan and Madhavrao Scindia discharged in the Jain hawala case by special judge V.B. Gupta.
05/28/1998 India takes retaliatory measures against Australia for its unilateral action.


 


Other Historical Dates and Events
11/24/1992Lok Sabha approves bill seeking to confer Indian citizenship to a child born to an Indian mother outside the country.
12/11/1988Dr. Nagendra Singh, 74, President of the International Court of Justice, passed away in Hague.
02/22/1946Curfew imposed till 9 p.m. by the British in Bombay as rioting and looting continued for the second day.
08/15/1990GOI declares Prophet Mohammed's birthday a national holiday.
07/28/1921The All-India Congress Party votes to boycott a forthcoming visit by the Prince of Wales and urges a boycott of imported cloth.
07/10/1991Shivraj Patil of Congress elected Speaker of 10th Lok Sabha.
01/14/1938Belur Math, new temple, was consecrated in Calcutta.
06/10/1891Gandhiji called to the Bar.
06/17/1993Congress (I) working committee reaffirms its faith in Rao; BJP asks for PM's resignation .
09/10/1918Muslim riots break out in Calcutta.