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Historical Event on 9/28/1965
India-Pakistan hostility erupts into a war lead by Pakistan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/4/1997 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2D), fourth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has additional capabilities such as mobile satellite service, business communication and television outreach beyond Indian boundaries. This became inoperable due to power bus anamoly since Oct. 4, 1997. It was launched by European launch vehicle, Ariane from Kourov in French Guyana. |
| 2/17/1948 | Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was re-designated as the 5th Battalion the 8th Gorkha Rifles (the Sirmoor Rifles). |
| 5/6/2000 | Benoy Krishna Chowdhury (89), veteran freedom fighter and prominent CPI(M) leader, died at a Government Hospital in Calcutta. |
| 10/26/1961 | Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October. |
| 1/25/1954 | Manabendranath Roy, famous leader of socialist revolution, passed away at Dehradun. |
| 10/29/1971 | Cyclone and tidal waves struck Orissa state claiming 10,000 lives. |
| 9/4/1998 | Mumbai Metropolitan court acquits Union Minister for Environment and Forests Suresh Prabhu in a case of cheque bouncing. |
| 7/12/1996 | Lok Sabha adopts resolution extending President's Rule in J & K for 6 months. |
| 8/5/1909 | Dwijhans Kalika Prasad Dixit, great poet and educationist, was born at Gram Dedani in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 12/13/1999 | The Government lodges protest with the Pakistani Rangers following the discovery of a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border. |
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