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Historical Event on 2/28/1997

The samadhi of Morarji Desai - Abhay Ghat - near Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad to be converted to a national monument, this was decided on Feburary 11.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/4/1935Government of India got the Royal Assent Act 1935.
4/1/1987Bureau of Indian Standards was changed to Indian Standards Institution.
3/31/1992Madhav Sinh Solanki, External Affairs minister, resigns on Bofors letter issue.
6/9/1986ICMR set up a network of Reference/Surveillance Centres for AIDS in almost all states of India.
9/29/1994Gulf nations suspend Indian flights on account of plague epidemic.
8/13/1936Madam Bhikaji Rustom Cama, freedom fighter, Indian lady revolutionary and politician, passed away at Bombay.
1/17/1908Akkineni Lakshmi Varaprasada Rao Prasad, film producer, was born.
9/27/1974Pankaj Dharmani, Indian ODI batsman (1997), was born.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
1/14/1959Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, emerges as leading choice for president in New Delhi.