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Historical Event on 8/28/1994

Three medical officers of the Field Ambulance unit were killed when the Indian contingent was trying to stem the war in Somalia.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/1/1668Mumbai was handed over to East India Company by King of England.
5/8/1996Poll counting begins.
7/12/1949Ban on RSS lifted on the assurance that it abjures violence.
2/24/1924Mahatma Gandhi released from jail.
10/28/1999Insurance Bill is introduced amid protest in the Lok Sabha.
7/13/1950Nehru asks Stalin and Acheson to restore peace in Korea.
9/15/1909Thiru Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai, ''Anna'', founder of DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, also an editor, writer, orator and patriot, was born in a weaver community of Kanchipuram.
4/15/1946The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was erected near a village named Kangla Tongbi at Mile 8 on the Imphal - Dimapur road. It was originally erected from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
6/7/1998India emerges World Bank's single largest borrower with cumulative loans of 44 billion dollars.
4/13/1999D. Sripada Rao, former Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, is shot dead by People's War Group naxalites near Annaram village in Karimnagar district.