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Historical Event on 1/28/1895
Shankarrao Dattatray Dev, veteran Congress leader, Gandhian and Sarvoday leader, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/4/1999 | India routed China 5-0 in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group I second round play-off in Calcutta. |
4/13/1999 | D. Sripada Rao, former Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, is shot dead by People's War Group naxalites near Annaram village in Karimnagar district. |
2/5/1919 | Sitaram Kesri, veteran Congress leader, was born. |
5/19/1969 | Cyclone hit Andhra Pradesh claiming 608 lives and rendering 20,000 homeless. |
5/11/1995 | In central Kashmir, militants burnt the Charar-e-Sherif shrine (the tomb of Sufi saint Sheikh Noorudin Noorani) built in 1460 by Zain-ul- Abidin. |
10/22/1983 | The Union government reduces the upper age limit for the Civil Services Examination from 28 years to 26 years. |
8/30/1989 | Anti-government riots leave at least 11 dead. |
9/3/1906 | Prithviraj Kapoor, veteran film actor, was born in Peshawar. His first film was 'Challenge' (1929). He is the founder of Prithvi Theatre in Bombay. He is remembered for his immortal role of Akbar is film 'Mugul-E-Azam'. |
8/1/1882 | Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, was born at Allahabad (U.P.). |
11/10/1848 | Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
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