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Historical Event on 3/28/1914

Komagata Maru sailed from Hong Kong to Vancouver with 351 Sikhs and 21 Punjabi Muslim youths under the captaincy of Sardar Gurjeet Singh as a part of 'Ghadar' Movement.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/16/1938Sarat Chandra Chatterji, famous Bengali novelist and writer, passed away.
5/21/1973Mohan Kumarmangalam, Central Minister, passed away in an air crash near Delhi.
4/9/1965After Indo-Pak conflict of 1965, the Raksha Medal, Samar Seva Star and some others were introduced.
1/28/1996Dev Kanta Baruah, first President of former Congress, passed away at New Delhi at the age of 82.
7/7/1855As many as 30,000, people went to Calcutta alongwith weapons to fight the British army.
11/5/1907Special commissioner appointed to deal with famine conditions.
7/3/1998Kavi Pradeep, Hindi film lyricist, is selected for the 1997 Dada Saheb Phalke award.
3/21/1998Jaswant Singh is appointed Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission after the resignation of Prof. Madhu Dandavate.
8/18/1700Bajirao I, the second peshwa, was born.
9/30/1963The USSR openly louded Indian view on Kashmir issue. This was against Pakistan's motives.