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Historical Event on 10/28/1946

Gandhiji leaves for Calcutta. Riots break out in Bihar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/11/1991BJP government in U.P. acquires the disputed Ayodhya land.
2/25/1993113 MPs arrested and Murali Manohar Joshi injured in police action.
2/25/1910Dalai Lama, Tibeten monk, flees from Chinese troops and takes refuge in India.
8/25/1981Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra leader, elected the President of Congress.
11/29/1994M.H. Kania, former Chief Justice of India made Chairman of the 14th Law Commission.
4/7/1987In a case filed by Saira Banu of Kerela, Supreme Court held that all wives, including Muslim women, whose husbands have either married again or taken a mistress are entitled to maintenance.
11/22/1916Shanti Ghosh, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Calcutta. She was one of the accused in famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka.
8/20/1944Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born in Bombay.
8/20/1944Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe.
12/1/1900Chidambaranar Thiru Thamizaringar, great author, journalist and homeopath, was born at Sirukadambur, Tamil Nadu.