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Historical Event on 1/28/1961

Foundation-stone of the first factory of H.M.T. wrist watches laid in Bangalore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/7/1998A. B. Vajpayee is elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party.
11/15/1992Praveen Amre scores century (103) on Test Cricket debut vs South Africa at Durban
9/1/1998Tatas withdraw their Rs. 1,475-crore proposal to operate an airline with foreign equity participation in the domestic sector.
4/23/1938Viceroy Lord Linlithgow opens the hydro-electric scheme at Malakand.
7/8/1988More than 100 people were killed and several injured as Bangalore-Trivandrum Island Express fell into Ashtamudi lake at Perumon in Quilon district of Kerala.
11/13/1909Gandhiji left England for South Africa and wrote ''Hind Swaraj'' on board S.S. Kildonan Castle.
12/26/1831Hennry Louis Vivian Derozio passed away.
6/18/1989India and Pakistan decide to end the five-year-old confrontation in Siachen Glacier area by redeploying their forces.
5/2/1996Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.
4/4/1910Sri Aurobindo left politics and reached Pondicherry, where he made the seat of Yoga.