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Historical Event on 5/28/1907
Purohit Dingambar Vinayak (Nanasaheb), leader in Maharashtra, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/2/1990 | Sri Ram Sharma Acharya passed away. (27-6-91). |
| 2/9/1757 | In a treaty between Lord Clive and Siraj Ud Daulah, Clive was authorised to safe guard (Killa Bandi) and open mint at Calcutta. Nawab had paid compensation to British Army. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 12/25/1924 | Atal Krishna Behari Bajpayee, Prime Minister of India and a veteran journalist, was born at Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. |
| 3/27/1996 | President and Governors of respective states issue notifications for elections to the 11th Lok Sabha and 6 State Assemblies. |
| 8/27/1958 | Metric system of weights and measures introduced. |
| 12/29/1927 | Hakim Ajmal Khan, freedom fighter, litterateur and a true patriot, died. |
| 4/11/2000 | Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'. |
| 10/5/1957 | Nehru becomes the first recipient of the key of Hiroshima Peace City. |
| 11/18/1974 | Rajni Pannikar,noted story writer, passed away. |
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