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Historical Event on 2/28/1936

Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/7/1997NAM foreign ministers two-day conference begins in New Delhi.
6/29/1901Amal Kumar Sarkar, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
10/29/1930Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two yearrs following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail.
4/17/1675Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj attacked the Fonda fort and won Karwar.
5/19/1969Cyclone hit Andhra Pradesh claiming 608 lives and rendering 20,000 homeless.
5/26/1998Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
10/23/1996Shankarsinh Waghela (Mahagujarat Janata party), new chief minister, sworn in at Gandhinagar in Gujarat.
12/8/1932Indian Air Force Act was passed.
12/3/1979Dhyan Chand, famous master of Hockey and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away.