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Historical Event on 1/28/1996
Dev Kanta Baruah, first President of former Congress, passed away at New Delhi at the age of 82.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/7/1980 | Mother Teresa visits the poor in Bronx at New York. |
| 9/6/1965 | Full scale warfare broke out all along the international border between West Pakistan and India. Pakistani troops advanced towards the Indian town of Akhnur in Kashmir and Pakistani paratroopers raided Punjab. |
| 9/7/1996 | Ajit Singh quits Congress and heads Tikait's party. |
| 2/20/1953 | India opens $ 140 mil. power system modeled after TVA. |
| 3/23/1942 | Japanese forces occupy Rangoon, Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean. |
| 2/23/1946 | Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns. |
| 10/4/1992 | D. M. Sutar, freedom fighter and senior journalist, died. |
| 4/30/1908 | Khudiram Bose along with Prafulla Chaki had planned to throw a bomb at a carriage supposed to be carrying the tyrannical magistrate Kingsford. Unfortunately he was betrayed and was caught and finally was sentenced to death. |
| 10/3/1906 | Govind Vinayak Devansthali, Sanskrit researcher, dictionary creator, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay. |
| 8/2/1935 | The British pass Govt. of India Act, separating Burma, Aden from India. |
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