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Historical Event on 2/28/1712
Bahadur Shah I died at Lahore at the age of 72 in the war of succession.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/21/1954 | Government of India and France sign an agreement for the de-facto transfer of the French settlement of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe to the Indian Union. The merger took place on November 1. |
| 9/21/1895 | Annapurnanand, great writer, was born. |
| 9/29/2000 | India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics. |
| 3/31/1992 | The new five-year Export-Import policy relaxes restrictions. |
| 3/21/1993 | The 68 km Mangalore-Udupi stretch of the west coast Konkan rail line opened by the PM. |
| 11/9/1977 | Keshavrao Bhole, great music director, passed away. |
| 6/11/1932 | Minu Modi, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 9/13/1997 | India drubs Maldives in SAFF football final in Kathmandu. |
| 10/1/1854 | Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26. |
| 2/15/1951 | Stephen H. Smith, father and pioneer of Indian Aero Philately or air borne mail, passed away. |
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