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Historical Event on 12/28/1981

Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/11/1911Prem Bhatia, great journalist, was born.
5/17/1957Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an end to nuclear tests.
9/11/1985Sri Lanka score their first Test victory by 149 runs against India.
12/17/1933Lala Amarnath scores a century (118) in his Test Cricket debut.
10/20/1989Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over West Indies and India.
6/6/1997New economic grouping BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation forum) comes into being.
12/3/1790Lord Cornwallis took away the regulation power from Nawab Murshidabad and Sadar Nizamat was removed from Adalat in Calcutta.
10/1/1847Annie Besant, famous philosopher and thesophist, was born in London.
3/10/1897Savitri Bai Phule passed away. She played a prominent role in assisting her husband Mahatma Jyotirao Govindrao Phule in education field. She taught in schools for girls and for downtroddens and untouchables.
9/26/1998Sachin Tendulkar make a record 127 runs against Zimbabwe at Calcutta.