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Historical Event on 3/28/1978
Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe (1997), was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/16/1963 | Gopal Singh Nepali, famous poet, passed away. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 2/15/1869 | Mirza ""Galib"" Asad Ullah Beg Khan, famous Urdu poet and writer, passed away. |
| 11/20/1942 | Attri Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested for further six months. She was earlier arrested for personal satyagraha and to hoist the national flag in Delhi Central Jail on January 26. |
| 4/12/1801 | Ranjit Singh proclaimed himself Maharaja of Punjab. |
| 10/15/1921 | Gul Muhammad, cricketer (Indian & Pakistani batsman), was born in Lahore. |
| 11/30/1896 | Gandhiji sails for South Africa with wife and children. |
| 12/24/1993 | Khanprabha Bhaduri, famous Bengali poet and writer, died. |
| 5/12/1999 | Arunachal Pradesh Governor refuses to quit. |
| 5/11/1985 | Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence. |
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