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Historical Event on 10/28/1998

The 1997 B.C. Roy National Award was presented to 18 medical experts.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/24/1999The dedication ceremony of Shanmukhananda Hall is put off.
2/11/1997A New Delhi district consumer court holds that provision of drinking water aboard trains is a necessity and it is the duty of the railways to provide it to passengers in reserved compartments.
5/13/1967Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) retired from the post of second President.
12/25/1879Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born.
12/25/1879Rana Sangram Singh, King of Mewad, fought Babur near Kanwa at Agra and lost the battle and died thereafter. He had vowed not to enter Chittogarh without a victory.
1/5/1995Jitendra Prasad succeeds N.D. Tiwari as UPCC-I chief.
3/20/1925Marquess Curzon of Kedleston died this morning at age 66 from complications following an operation. Long a kingpin of the Conservative party, Lord Curzon spent 40 years in public life, serving as Viceroy and Governor General of India and, at the end of his career, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Though he came close to becoming prime minister in 1923, his aristocratic past militated against him in an era which nominated leaders from the House of Commons. He twice wed US women and enjoyed fame as an author of books about politics and his own travels.
4/18/1859Tatya Tope (his original name was Ramchandra Raghunath Tope) a leader of Sepoy Mutiny, was captured in April, courtmarshalled and hanged at Sivpuri for 1857 Indian Mutiny.
6/19/1747Nadirshaha passed away.
7/22/1991New industrial policy for liberalisation of economies announced in Parliament.