April 28

Today in Indian History
Events for April 28

28-April-1701	John Norris of Britain met Aurangjeb at Parnela in South India.
28-April-1740	Thorle BajiRao Peshwa passed away at Raverkhedi near the banks of the Narmada river near Khargon and his son Balaji Baji Rao was placed on his father’s throne as the Peshwa. (22 or 28).
28-April-1848	Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Das was born in Calcutta district in Orissa.
28-April-1936	Abdul Rashid ‘Fida’ (Kishtwari), great poet, was born.
28-April-1943	Netaji Subash Chandra Bose aligned the Japanese-German submarine at Medagaskar.
28-April-1945	Ajit Manohar Pai, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1969), was born in Bombay.
28-April-1952	The war between Japan and India ended.
28-April-1974	Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta, famous economist, politician and journalist, passed away.
28-April-1986	Malayalam film `Chidambaram’ directed by G. Aravindan wins best feature film award and Shyam Benegal bags the Best Director award for the Hindi film ‘Trikal’.
28-April-1992	Vinayak Krishna Gokak, famous Kannad poet and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away.
28-April-1993	Troops storm police complex in Srinagar and free officials from the rebelling 2000 policemen.
28-April-1996	EC orders re-polling in 69 booths in four states.

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