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Historical Event on 12/28/1998

India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/6/1999The DMK front is set to win a majority of LS seats in Tamil Nadu.
8/2/1958Arshad Ayub, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 13 Tests between 1987-89), was born in Hydrabad.
2/11/1998Prof. Anil Kumar Baruah, CPI(ML) candidate for the Dibrugarh Lok Sabha seat, is shot dead by suspected ULFA militants at Neharani.
2/25/1999The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively.
7/5/1968Naval Submarine wing in Indian Naval Force came into existence with the arrival of the first submarine from the Soviet Union.
8/19/1934Dr. Hiralal died. He was a distinguished historian and contributed numerous articles to 'Indian Antiquary', 'Epigraphia Indica', The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, etc. He was also an honorary correspondent in Archaeology to the Government of India.
8/25/1975Bundelkhand University was established in Uttar Pradesh.
9/19/1950U. N. Assembly rejects Indian-Soviet proposal to admit Communist China in New York.
2/1/1889Judge Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.
3/6/1998A Congress(I) Ministry headed by Virbhadra Singh is sworn in at Himachal Pradesh.