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Historical Event on 1/28/1992

Umanath Vachaspati, Magsesey Award winner, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/30/1996Re-polling in 445 stations in six states.
11/1/1999Soli Sorbajee is re-appointed the Attorney General.
2/23/1962Union government sets up an Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) formed by the Department of Atomic Energy and work on Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) started.
9/5/1998University and college teachers affiliated to the All-India Federation of University and College Teachers Organisations call off their nation-wide strike.
9/5/1998Guru Angad Dev, Sikh Guru, passed away.
9/7/1998Prof. K. M. Chandy, Congress (I) leader and former Governor of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, died in Kochi at the age of 77.
8/17/1970The first microwave link, which was set up without foreign assistance, was commissioned between Asansol, Dhanbad and Ranchi.
1/26/1993Sub Lt. Rubi Singh of the Navy becomes the first woman in India to lead an armed force contingent in the Republic Day parade at New Delhi; British PM John Major attends as the first ever British head of Government as Chief Guest.
4/1/1933Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron.
6/15/1947All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi.