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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 |
| 4/18/1926 | Padmakar Ganesh Chitle, famous Marathi novelist, was born. |
| 2/20/1928 | Abaji Narayan Pednekar, children's story writer, was born. |
| 2/6/1992 | The Centre decides to wind up the 7-year-old Food Processing Industry ministry. |
| 6/13/1999 | The Indian army secures the strategic Tololing peak in the Dras sector. |
| 12/30/1929 | The first inland Indian air mail left New Delhi this morning for Jodhpur, Hyderabad, and Karachi to connect at Karachi with the air service to London. |
| 9/11/1985 | Sri Lanka score their first Test victory by 149 runs against India. |
| 12/11/1938 | Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi, famous Hindi litterateur and editor, passed away. |
| 10/2/1971 | Gandhi Sadan was handed over to the nation. |
| 6/1/1997 | Ghulam Rasool Wani, National Conference leader, kidnapped and shot dead by militants at Kaskot in Doda district, Jammu. |
| 1/26/1919 | Mohammad Cazzambhoy Ibrahim Khan, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests India vs West Indies 1948-49), was born in Bombay. |
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