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Historical Event on 2/28/1937
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/20/1997 | All India Hindu Conference begins at Hardwar. |
| 6/12/1997 | Sitaram Kesri elected president of Congress I (6224 votes. Sharad Pawar-888; Rajesh Pilot-354). |
| 6/29/1873 | Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, first Bengali modern poet, died. |
| 4/18/1978 | Sardar Sobha Singh, famous builder of modern New Delhi, passed away at the age of 90. |
| 5/4/1799 | Tipu Sultan is killed in a battle against 5,000 British soldiers who stormed and razed his capital, Seringapatanam. |
| 4/20/1914 | Gopinath Mahanti, famous Oriya novelist and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 4/4/1991 | Gujarat CM Chimanbhai Patel JD (Gujarat)-to contest the elections with poll understanding with Congress (I). |
| 8/29/1959 | India sends troops to Tibet border to block the Chinese. |
| 3/24/1896 | Thiripad V. T. Bhatt, author and journalist, was born. |
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