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Historical Event on 6/28/1975

As a response to anti-government demonstrations, India imposes the toughest press censorship since independence.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/13/1999Punjab Police men, Railways women emerged Federation Cup basketball champions in Jalandhar.
3/10/1995ONGC's oil rig that blew out ( January 8 ) at Pasalapudi site near Amalapuram (Andhra Pradesh) put out after 62 days.
9/4/1987Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan.
2/8/1971Indira Congress wins the mid-term elections for Lok Sabha. Indira Gandhi becomes PM.
8/20/1988Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale strikes India and Nepal. Thousands killed.
8/15/1996Deve Gowda speaks in Hindi on the occasion of the 50th Independence Day.
6/23/1942Jabbar Patel, film producer, was born.
12/22/1995A Russian-made AN-26 plane forced to land in Bombay following an Intelligence Bureau tip off that it could be the suspected aircraft which dropped arms at Purulia.
2/28/1989S. B. Chavan, Finance Minister, presents a Rs. 7337 crore-deficit budget for 1989-90.
8/11/1911Prem Bhatia, great journalist, was born.