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Historical Event on 5/28/1966
B. S. Chawla was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 21-02-1973.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/21/1999 | The Janata Dal splits under Deve Gowda and Sharad Yadav. The latter group to support NDA. |
| 2/21/1997 | J. M. Lyngdoh appointed Election Commissioner. |
| 5/25/1886 | Rash Behari Basu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Palara Bighati village, West Bengal. |
| 5/25/1886 | Chaitanya Maha Prabhu, vaishnav Sant, passed away. His mortal remains at Puri.(9/7or 29/6). |
| 4/13/1796 | The first elephant was brought to America from Bengal, India. |
| 10/6/1985 | P.T. Usha sets record for 400m (Women) in 51.61 seconds at Canberra . |
| 6/30/1997 | Gujarat floods claimed 170 lives. |
| 11/19/1997 | 1996 Indira Gandhi prize for peace, disarmament and development presented to Medicins Sans Frontieres, a non-government organisation, providing medical aid to the needy across the globe, by President K. R. Narayanan on the 80th birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi. |
| 7/4/1989 | Capt. W. A. Sangma appointed Governor of Mizoram and A. A. Rahim Governor of Meghalaya. |
| 7/4/1989 | Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born. |
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