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Historical Event on 8/28/1997

Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be allowed to contest elections even if an appeal against the conviction was pending in a higher court.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/9/1942Chiang Kai-Shek meets Sir Stafford Cripps, British Viceroy in India.
2/9/1942Babur Shah was declared as the Emperor of Dehli.
8/12/1928The Olympic Games hosted by Amsterdam fully realized Pierre de Coubertin's vision: 'the nations of the world in friendly competition'. After a succession of Olympics dominated by North America and Western Europe, Amsterdam welcomed more than 3,000 competitors.
1/14/1851Peshwa Bajirao Raghunath, last Peshwa of Marathas, passed away at Brahmawart.
11/21/1970Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman, great Indian physicist, passed away early morning at Bangalore, Karnataka. His work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called Raman scattering which is a change in frequency observed when light is scattered in a transparent material. When monochromatic or laser light is passed through a transparent gas, liquid, or solid and is observed with the spectroscope, the normal spectral line is associated with it lines of longer and of shorter wavelength and this is called the Raman spectrum. Thus the Raman effect is applied in spectrographic chemical analysis and in the determination of molecular structure.
1/18/1999Prof. Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, is selected for Bharat Ratna.
5/1/1946Joanna Lumley, actress (Abs Fab, OHM's Secret Service), was born in Kashmir, India.
1/5/1994Jnanpith Award was given to U. R. Anantha Murthy (Kannada).
4/8/1994Dr. Wilfred D'Souza re-installed as Goa CM.
8/13/1913Khawtin Khuma, politician, was born at Phuldungsei, Tripura.