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Historical Event on 12/28/1981
Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/19/1992 | Manvendra Mukherji, famous singer and music director, passed away. |
| 8/22/1919 | Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born. |
| 5/1/1993 | Narayan Ganesh Goray, socialist stalwart, 86, passed away in Pune. |
| 11/3/1933 | Amartya Kumar Sen, economist, was born at Santiniketan (Bangal). |
| 2/25/1977 | Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun. |
| 7/9/1746 | French sailor's fleet reached at the bank of Pondichery in India. |
| 1/21/1820 | Dalpat Rai, modern Gujrati poet, was born. |
| 9/30/1908 | Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi novelist, was born. |
| 3/16/1977 | Sixth General Election of India begins. |
| 3/13/1940 | Michael O' Dyer, former Governor of Punjab, was shot by Udham Singh in Caxton Hall at point-blank range in full view of a large gathering in London. |
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