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Historical Event on 5/28/1903
Shantanu L. Kirloskar, great industrialist, was born at Sholapur (Maharashtra).
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| 9/30/2000 | The Government appoints Dr. D.P.S. Seth as CMD of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. |
| 10/21/1959 | Chinese and Indian troops clash on Ladakh border. |
| 1/3/1917 | Kartarsingh Duggal, famous Punjabi story-writer and novelist, was born. |
| 10/26/1947 | After the tribal column, raping and looting along the way by Pakistani Army continued at Baramulla, 50 kilometres from Srinagar. Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir Hari Singhji, then, signed the instrument of accession with India and the Indian Armed Forces reacted to the Pakistani Army's infiltration. Great acts of personal gallantry and collective bravery were shown in the Kashmir operations. Major Som Nath Sharma was awarded the PVC, India's highest decoration for valour, and Brigadier Usman, commanding the 50th Parachute Brigade, was awarded the MVC. Both the soldiers were awarded posthumously. |
| 11/1/1991 | J.N. Dixit appointed the next Foreign Secretary. |
| 5/17/1897 | Dhirendra Varma, famous linguist, was born. |
| 12/22/1877 | Shreenivas Ramanujam, famous Indian mathematician, was born. |
| 6/19/2000 | Babu Parmanand, former speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, sworn in as the 12th Governor of Haryana. |
| 9/20/1999 | T. R. Rajakumari (78), the dream girl of the Tamil silver screen for over two decades, died. |
| 8/30/1659 | Aurangzeb plotted the death of his brother Dara Shikoh and beheaded him. He was buried in a vault under the dome of Humayun's tomb. |
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