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Historical Event on 2/28/1928
C. V. Raman invented 'Raman Effect' of scattered light, which led him in achieving the 'Nobel Prize'.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/31/1994 | Pandit Samtaprasad, famous Tabla player, passed away. |
| 1/29/1994 | Air India and Indian Airlines converted into companies. |
| 11/19/1910 | Gohar alias Gohar A. Kayoum Mamajiwala was born at Lahore. She was a film actress. Her first film was 'Fortune & Fools' (1925). Other films were 'Lanka Ni Laadi', 'Handsome', 'Briefless Barrister', 'Thief of Delhi', 'Punjab Mail', 'My Darling' and 'The Web'. |
| 7/9/1995 | 17 Indian mountaineers peaked Jogambha in the Garhwal Himalayas. |
| 9/8/1911 | Anand Gopal Sheorey, great Hindi writer, litterateur and journalist, was born at Sausar in Madhya Pradesh. |
| 9/29/1999 | Jaswant Singh, External Affairs Minister, meet his Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz meet at the SAARC ministerial meeting. |
| 1/18/1985 | Spy ring cracked. Top Government officials, businessmen held. |
| 1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously. |
| 10/2/1952 | Community Development Programme started. |
| 11/18/1937 | 1,100 prisoners freed after appeal by Gandhi, his first political act in year. |
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