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Historical Event on 12/28/1972
C. Rajagopalachari, the only Indian Governor General, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/17/1859 | Keshavlal Harshrai Dhruv, researcher and translator, was born. |
| 6/6/1997 | Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab. |
| 6/22/1994 | Law for the betterment of women introduced. |
| 8/12/1998 | Uttarancha State plan meets with difficulty owing to differences on inclusion of Udham Singh Nagar and Hardwar district. |
| 12/26/1989 | India debars Bofors from future contracts until they come out clean. |
| 1/2/1947 | Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Bevin, the personal emissary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in Delhi. Beven is reported to have told the great man, ''Eighteen languages, 500 dialects, some 30 religions, a million Gods and Goddesses, 300 million individuals, an infinity of castes and sub castes, and a population (that is) practically illiterate and half of which (are) beggars or thieves... Good luck, sir! Such a nation is ungovernable! It'd take you centuries to get anywhere!''. Gandhiji wrapped his large, white shawl a little more closely around him, and modestly replied, 'India has eternity before her.. and ""All around me is utter darkness"". |
| 4/22/1993 | Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike. |
| 6/6/1903 | Hiralal Sen shot the first Indian Advertisment sequences for Jabakusum (hair tonic) and Edward's Tonic. |
| 9/21/1992 | Tarachand Barjatya, film producer, passed away. |
| 1/20/1959 | Tej Bahadur Sapru passed away. |
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