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Historical Event on 9/28/1837

Bahadur Shah-II ascended the throne and became the emperor of Delhi at the age of 62 following the death of his father Akbar Shah-II.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/8/1947There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.
9/1/1893Kashinath Tryambak Telang, first Maharashtrian Chief Justice of Mumbai High Court, died.
2/10/1803Jagannath Sunkerseth, great social worker, education lover and one of the sculptors of modern Mumbai, was born.
2/3/1992Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first).
4/13/1984India beat Pak by 58 runs to win the first Cricket Asia Cup in Sharjah.
4/30/1981C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 08-02-1985.
8/1/2000The Lok Sabha adopts Uttar Pradesh State Reorganisation Bill paving the way for the creation of Uttaranchal the 27th State.
12/4/1999A batch of 1,690 Indian soldiers leave for Sierra Leone to join the U.N. Mission to implement the peace accord.
7/7/196294 people died in an Italian DC-8 air crash near Bombay.
3/17/1997Cochin Stock Exchange goes online.