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Historical Event on 2/28/1987

The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event).

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/24/1996Indian Express launches Vizag (17th) edition.
1/10/1998Nine Ranbir Sena supporters are killed in an ambush at Rampurchauram village in Bihar's Jehanabad district.
8/1/1952Nationalised Airways at Safdarjung, New Delhi inaugurated by Nehru.
12/6/1732Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of East India Company in India, was born in Churchill village of Oxfordshire in UK.
1/4/1967Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. began delivery of the MIG aircraft.
8/1/1932Meena Kumari, film actress, was born.
6/2/1984Army takes control in Punjab as 22 people are killed in Sikh struggle for autonomy. The state is declared a restricted area under the Foreigners' Act.
5/6/1967Dr. Zakir Hussain elected President.
9/11/1906Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'.
3/28/1947Abdul Bari, labour leader, passed away.