Virginia Indian Community - VirginiaIndian.net
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 8/28/1993

President's rule in J&K extended for another six months.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/28/1998The 1997 B.C. Roy National Award was presented to 18 medical experts.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
6/18/1896Cota Ramaswami, cricketer (Davis Cup for India 1922, Test 1936), was born in Madras.
2/19/1993SC Jamir elected leader of the Congress (I) Legislature Party in Nagaland.
8/15/2000Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, says in his Independence Day address, ""Borders cannot be redrawn either in the name of religion or on the strength of the sword"".
9/23/1965The Indian Army secured the Kashmir Valley and the only object left was to clean out the remnants of the Gibraltar Force. Under the guidance of United Nations, the cease-fire came into effect.
1/21/1924Professor Madhu Dandavate, former Finance Minister, was born at Ahmednagar.
5/22/1993Karnataka special task force guns down Veerappan's brother and righthand man Arjunan.
10/24/1994The Supreme Court refused to answer Presidential reference on Ayodhya and acquisition of disputed land was upheld.
10/24/1994Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same.