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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 1/28/1846 |
British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal. |
| 1/28/1853 |
Jose Marti, great author and politician, was born at Cuba. |
| 1/28/1865 |
Lala Lajpat Rai 'Punjab Kesari', great valiant freedom fighter, social reformer, humanitarian and lawyer, was born in Dhudike village of Ferozepur district, Punjab. |
| 1/28/1877 |
Pulin Bihari Das, revolutionary journalist, passed away. |
| 1/28/1894 |
Anandibai Prabhakar Jayawant, famous Hindi writer, was born at Baroda. |
| 1/28/1895 |
Shankarrao Dattatray Dev, veteran Congress leader, Gandhian and Sarvoday leader, was born. |
| 1/28/1898 |
Nivedita, an Irish lady of Scottish descent, came to India. |
| 1/28/1900 |
General K.M. Cariappa, first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, was born at Sanivara, Santhai (Coorg). |
| 1/28/1902 |
Gandhiji left for Rangoon visit. Stays for a month with Gokhale at Calcutta. Returns to Rajkot and settles down to practise. |
| 1/28/1911 |
The famous Hope diamond, once worn by Marie Antoinette, was bought tonight for over $300,000 by Ned McLean, son of John McLean. Mrs. McLean wore it as a head ornament, guarded by a former Secret Service man who in turn was guarded by two private detectives. Walnut-sized and exquisitely blue in color, the 44.5-carat stone stems from India. Its owners included Louis XIV, Louis XVI, and a London banker named Hope. A sinister history of ill luck, madness, and violent death clings to the unique gem. |
| 1/28/1925 |
Raja Ramanna, fourth President of Indian Atomic Energy Commission, was born. |
| 1/28/1933 |
India in Waldorf Hotel in London read out a four and a half page note in Cambridge. |
| 1/28/1937 |
Suman Kalyanpurkar, famous singer, was born. |
| 1/28/1950 |
Supreme Court of India was inaugurated. |
| 1/28/1951 |
Kashmir issue taken up in UN security council. |
| 1/28/1961 |
Foundation-stone of the first factory of H.M.T. wrist watches laid in Bangalore. |
| 1/28/1976 |
Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through New Zealand at Eden Park. |
| 1/28/1984 |
Dozen's of Sikh Militants arrested in India's troubled Punjab State after terrorists killed 3 people and injured 31 in grenade attack. |
| 1/28/1984 |
Sohrab Meherwanji Modi, famous drama and film producer, director and actor, passed away. |
| 1/28/1992 |
Umanath Vachaspati, Magsesey Award winner, passed away. |
| 1/28/1996 |
Dev Kanta Baruah, first President of former Congress, passed away at New Delhi at the age of 82. |
| 1/28/1998 |
All 26 accused, who stood trial in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, were sentenced to death. A designated Judge of the TADA court in Chennai found them guilty. |
| 1/28/1999 |
Central Zone won the Deodhar Trophy, defeating South in their final in Agartala. |
| 1/28/2000 |
Indian junior cricket team wins the Youth cricket World Cup. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/20/1920 | Censor Board, after examining the film 'Ahilya Uddhar' on October 20, started mentioning the number of reels as well as the length in feet on the Censor Certificate. The film had already been released earlier on August 23, 1919. |
| 9/21/1994 | Ramkrishna Bajaj, freedom fighter and veteran industrialist, passed away. |
| 8/23/1995 | First ever cellular phone service begins in Calcutta. |
| 2/24/1950 | G.J.M.Gazdar, computational linguist, was born. |
| 7/20/1990 | GOI notifies restrictions on liberal import policy announced earlier. The restrictions will cut the import bill by about Rs. 1000 crore. |
| 1/19/1963 | Kuladhor Chaliha, one of the pioneer Congress leaders of Assam, passed away. |
| 5/8/1933 | Gandhi starts hunger strike to protest the British repression of untouchables. |
| 2/1/1901 | Six language penel were started on the Rs. five dinomination. These notes were single sided and the back side could be used for accounting purposes. The six languages were Urdu, Bengali, Telugu, Kaithi, Kannada and Tamil. The paper used for printing was white hand made and moulded. |
| 5/25/1995 | Voting on the Criminal Law Bill differed again in Rajya Sabha. |
| 6/9/1986 | ICMR set up a network of Reference/Surveillance Centres for AIDS in almost all states of India. |
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