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Historical Event on 9/28/1954
137 people were killed when an Express Train fell from a flood-damaged bridge near East of Hydrabad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/23/1975 | P. S. Bapat, victoria cross winner Lieutenant General, passed away. |
| 11/22/1916 | Shanti Ghosh, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Calcutta. She was one of the accused in famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka. |
| 4/16/1966 | Nandlal Bose, who established modern painting in Bengal, passed away. |
| 10/4/1999 | Kerala High Court orders Election Commission to booth-wise counting. The EC is likely to move the Supreme Court against this order. |
| 7/1/1990 | General Sunith Francis Rodrigues takes over as Chief of the Army Staff. |
| 10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
| 4/24/1973 | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian capt at 23), was born in Bombay. |
| 1/25/1980 | Awards regarding Public Honour were re-started by Goverment of India; Mother Teresa was honoured by Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, etc. |
| 2/17/1992 | Tripura's Congress (I) ministry falls as TUJS withdraws support. |
| 9/23/1999 | India rejects Pakistan's proposal for an international conference on arms control. |
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