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Historical Event on 2/28/1968

International City Auroville inaugurated the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondechery.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/199324th International Film Festival of India opens in New Delhi.
4/30/1977Nine Congress-ruled states placed under President's rule. Janata Party formed.
2/6/1994Indian Union Muslim League splits, G.M.Banatwala elected President in place of Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait.
3/28/1956Tirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekhar, great Indian cricket pace-bowler (2 Tests 1982-83 little impact), was born in Madras.
7/4/1997Mumbai High Court directs BMC to reinstate G.R. Khairnar, the iconoclastic Dy. Municipal Commissioner suspended in `94 and removed from service in October 1996.
8/7/1947BEST services were started by Mumbai Mahanagarpalika.
7/31/18619,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam becomes a world record.
9/17/1899First British troops leave Bombay for South Africa.
5/26/1931One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras.
1/30/1903Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta.