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Historical Event on 4/28/1974

Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta, famous economist, politician and journalist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/30/1903Bhagwati Charan Varma was born.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
11/24/1973E. V. Ramasami Naicker (EVR), founder leader of Dravida Kazhagam, passed away at the age of 94.
1/19/1976C. V. Bawdekar, famous journalist, died.
3/12/1942British troops vacate the Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.
3/4/2000Geeta Mukherjee (76), veteran communist leader, died of a massive heart attack in New Delhi. Popularly known as 'Geetadi', she won every Lok Sabha election from Panskura in West Bengal since 1980.
7/13/1660Baji Prabhu Deshpande, one of the warriors in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's kingdom, died.
10/9/199627-member ministry of National Conference headed by its president Dr. Farooq Abdullah sworn-in in J&K.
10/2/1910Frank C. Brown, educationist and social worker, was born.
2/14/1807Khanderao Holkar, one of the sardars in Peshwa kingdom, passed away.