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Historical Event on 12/28/1981
Madras-Penang undersea cable commissioned.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/17/1998 | Jyotirmoyee bags her second gold at the Asian Games, winning the women's 800m. Rosakutty finishes second. Bantamweight pugilist Dingko Singh clinches a gold while Indian pair of Sethi-Shandilya strikes top prize in billiards doubles category. |
| 10/15/1997 | Arundhati Roy (37), Delhi-based author wins Britain's most prestigious literary award 'Booker Prize' for her novel "The God of Small Things' |
| 12/28/1926 | Shirish Kumar, freedom figher, was born. |
| 3/16/1993 | Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people. |
| 7/14/1928 | Bedabrata Barua, educationist, social reformer and politician, was born. |
| 12/30/1941 | Gandhiji, at his own request, is relieved of hi-leadership of Congress by Working Committee. |
| 9/5/1998 | Trishul and Akash test fired from Chandipore. |
| 9/5/1998 | Mughal army defeated Rana Pratapsingh in the battle of Haldighat. |
| 6/18/1858 | Rani Laxmi Bai of Jhansi died while fighting with the British troops in the battlefield near Gwalior. |
| 7/31/1940 | Udham Singh, fiery revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by the British Government in the Pantone Villa Jail, London. |
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