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Historical Event on 11/28/1999

The Vajpayee Government seeks support on major economic issues during the winter session at Parliament.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/1966Kuwalyanand Swami (Jagannath Ganesh Gune), great Physical Training and Yoga expert, passed away.
10/5/1993Geet Sethi retained World Billiards title by beating Mike Russel.
3/11/1784Tipu Sultan and Britishers signed the treaty at Mangalore which is known as the Mangalore treaty.
2/5/1991The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India.
9/30/1894Rangnath Ramchandra Diwakar, Gandhian leader, was born.
12/29/1953The States Reorganisation Commission.
1/1/1983This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Communications Year"".
8/1/1947Partition of India into India and Pakistan. Power transferred. Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan.
1/28/1925Raja Ramanna, fourth President of Indian Atomic Energy Commission, was born.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.