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Historical Event on 12/28/1998
India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/14/1907 | Muhammad Ayub Khan, Pakistani president, was born. |
| 1/10/1975 | India accords recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organization. |
| 6/5/1995 | A three-week long, the first ever Indo-US joint army training exercise begins. |
| 1/14/1761 | The third and last battle of Panipat, fought between the Marathas and the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abadli, started. The Marathas lost 28,000 soldiers and were virtually routed in North India thus ending the Maratha hegemony. |
| 12/20/1999 | Win Chadha ready to come to India to face trial in the Bofors case. |
| 5/17/1927 | A.N. Radhakrishnan, great educationist, was born. |
| 12/24/1809 | Christopher ""Kit"" Carson, KY, union brig-general and Indian fighter, was born. |
| 7/3/1936 | Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling during Cambridge U vs MCC match. |
| 7/21/1934 | Chandrakant Gulabrao Borde, cricket batsman (55 Tests for India 1959-67), was born in Pune. |
| 1/14/1980 | Indira Gandhi was sworn in as the Prime Minister of India. She held the office till she was assassinated on October 31, 1984. |
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