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Historical Event on 10/28/1998
Ghulam Ahmed, former Indian cricket captain, died in Hyderabad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/26/1926 | Karachi Autonomous Region established in RSFSR (until 1943). |
| 11/16/1995 | Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS), India's first elevated suburban railway, becomes operational in Madras. |
| 3/4/1961 | First Indian aircraft carrier naval fighter vessel ''I.N.S. Vikrant'' was commissioned in Belfast. |
| 4/16/1930 | Baba Kanshi Ram, freedom fighter and social reformer, was arrested by British police. |
| 5/21/1990 | Moelvi Muhammad Farouk, great Indian spiritual leader, was murdered. |
| 1/22/1997 | Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhajan Lal, former Union Ministers Ajit Singh, Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav and five others chargesheeted by CBI in Rs. 3.5 crore Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MPs bribery case. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 2/23/1997 | 176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa. |
| 1/9/1997 | John Major, British Prime Minister, addresses plenary session of the 'Partnership Summit' organised in Calcutta by the Confederation of Indian Industry. |
| 6/5/1927 | Sarjit Singh Bal, educationist, was born in Renala Khurd, Punjab. |
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