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Historical Event on 6/28/1857
Nana Sahib proclaimed himself as the Peshwa and called for the total extermination of the British power of India at Bithoor.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/31/1997 | Fourth National Games opened at Bangalore. |
| 9/11/1895 | Vinoba Bhave (real name Vinayak Narhari Bhave), great Gandhian Acharya, was born at Ganoda village of Maharashtra. |
| 4/30/1992 | Import duty on gold halved; minor concessions in direct taxes. |
| 12/11/1872 | Rajkhova Benudhar, modern Assamese poet, was born. |
| 9/15/1947 | Gandhi deplores the idea of population transfer. |
| 1/10/1993 | Atleast 15 people are killed in Bombay on the 5th day of riots between Hindus and Muslims. |
| 11/7/1974 | South Africa beats India in Women's Open in 63rd Tennis Davis Cup. |
| 1/28/1898 | Nivedita, an Irish lady of Scottish descent, came to India. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 5/3/1718 | Baba Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, great freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Ahlu village, Lahore. |
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