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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event 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. |
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