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Historical Event on 12/28/2000
India, Israel deal on Phalcon AWACS planes put on hold, pending change of guard in the U.S.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/1/1994 | Surendra Singh was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-07-1996. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 4/18/1914 | Jamshedji R. Patel, cricket Test Umpire for 9 tests from 1948-59, was born in Mumbai. |
| 12/23/1845 | Rasbhihari Ghosh, famous patriot and law expert, was born. |
| 12/15/1974 | Rasulatbai, veteran classical music expert, died. |
| 11/19/1835 | Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi was born in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. She was named Manikarnika and was called 'Manu'. |
| 2/27/1996 | In the Jain hawala case, non bailable warrants of arrest issued against 10 politicians including BJP leader L.K. Advani, former Dy. PM Devi Lal and former Union Ministers. |
| 2/27/1996 | Saint Namdev passed away. |
| 11/19/1924 | Amarjit Singh, great educationist and scientist, was born at Punjab. |
| 3/14/1883 | Karl Marx, great journalist, chief editor, writer and social worker, died in London. |
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