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Historical Event on 8/28/1997
Tiwari and Surinderjit Kaur set national records in hammer throw in Federation Cup Athletics.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/21/1930 | Anand Bakshi, famous lyrisist, was born. |
| 6/25/1943 | No. 8 Squadron started functioning absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel, and also issued with a vengeance to achieve operational status. |
| 3/12/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence. |
| 3/17/1769 | To establish the business of English Mill's Cloth, East Indiian Company had imposed various restriction on weavers of Bengal to destroy the Muslim and textile industry in Bengal , which was meant to destroy the Indian cloth and 'malmal' industry. |
| 9/10/1923 | Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali child litterateur, passed away. |
| 1/30/1785 | Sir Charles Metkaff, governor general of East India Company, was born. |
| 9/21/1912 | Firoz Gandhi, great politician, was born. |
| 3/15/1904 | Annada Shankar Rai, modern Oria and Bengali poet, was born. |
| 2/6/1996 | Supreme Court upholds election of CPI (M) leader O. Bharathan to Kerala Assembly from Edakkad (91). |
| 11/17/1991 | Sharad Pawar wins in Baramati. |
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