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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India

DateEvent Name
04/28/1701 John Norris of Britain met Aurangjeb at Parnela in South India.
04/28/1740 Baji Rao I aka Thorle BajiRao Peshwa passed away at Raverkhedi near the banks of the Narmada river near Khargon and his son Balaji Baji Rao was placed on his father's throne as the Peshwa.
04/28/1848 Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Das was born in Calcutta district in Orissa.
04/28/1936 Abdul Rashid 'Fida' (Kishtwari), great poet, was born.
04/28/1943 Netaji Subash Chandra Bose aligned the Japanese-German submarine at Medagaskar.
04/28/1945 Ajit Manohar Pai, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1969), was born in Bombay.
04/28/1952 The war between Japan and India ended.
04/28/1974 Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta, famous economist, politician and journalist, passed away.
04/28/1986 Malayalam film `Chidambaram' directed by G. Aravindan wins best feature film award and Shyam Benegal bags the Best Director award for the Hindi film 'Trikal'.
04/28/1992 Vinayak Krishna Gokak, famous Kannad poet and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away.
04/28/1993 Troops storm police complex in Srinagar and free officials from the rebelling 2000 policemen.
04/28/1996 EC orders re-polling in 69 booths in four states.


 


Other Historical Dates and Events
08/12/1988S. R. Bommai elected Karnataka CM.
10/11/1941Amitabh Bachchan, famous film actor, was born.
11/23/1926Satya Sai Baba, Hindu universalist renaissance charismatic guru, educationalist and worker of miracles, was born.
03/19/1936Raghav Kaneria, great artist and decorator, was born.
11/22/1999V. S. Rama Devi and Vishnu Kant Shastri appointed the new Governors of Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh.
10/14/1885Mukandi Lal, famous Hindi writer, was born in Chamoli at U.P.
01/04/1994Rahul Dev Burman, famous music director better known as 'Pancham Da', died at the age of 56.
02/02/1986Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India.
05/26/1998S. Chandrasekar, scientist, was selected for the Niels Bohr-UNESCO gold medal.
09/23/1863Rao Tularam Singh Yadav, freedom fighter, was one of the key leaders of the Indian rebellion of 1857, in Haryana, where he is considered a state hero.