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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
12/29/1984Rajiv Gandhi claims for Indian Prime Minister post after his landslide majority in 8th General Elections.
1/1/1973Indian General Insurance Corporation nationalised.
2/10/1986Pope John Paul II ends visit to India.
8/6/1996SC asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to I.T. department.
1/21/1922V. Rajagopal, cricket test umpire for 1 test in 1969-70, was born in Mumbai.
12/21/1929Indian National Congress convenes in Lahore.
7/7/197378 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India).
2/26/1887Sir Benegal Narsingh Rao, an eminent lawyer and political leader, was born. He was the first Indian President of UN Security Council in 1950.
3/22/1933M.V.Nagendra, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1963-77, was born at Karnataka.
1/9/1841John Gil Christ, founder of Fort William College Calcutta, passed away at Paris.