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Historical Event on 8/28/1667

Sardar Jay Singh I, the famous king- Mirza Raja, a ruler of the kingdom of Amber (later called Jaipur) also in Aurangzeb's kingdom, passed away at Barhanpur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/30/1994Mrinalini Desai, freedom fighter and famous litterateur, died.
1/2/1992Central Ministers Cabinet approved that elections will take place after the death of any independent candidate.
9/11/1906Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'.
12/9/1977Ravishankar Mahashankar Rawal, famous painter, passed away.
7/21/1977Neelam Sanjiva Reddi was elected as the President of India.
8/22/1933Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years.
6/5/1981Gopal Saini at Tokyo sets record for 3000m ST. in 8,30.88.
10/6/1999Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, won the Bellary Lok Sabha seat defeating her BJP rival Sushma Swaraj by a margin of 56,100 votes.
5/8/1901British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population.
9/27/1856Pratap Narayan Mishra, Hindi writer, was born. He is one of the pioneers of mordern Hindi language.