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Historical Event on 1/28/1996
Dev Kanta Baruah, first President of former Congress, passed away at New Delhi at the age of 82.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/28/1996 | Genghis Khan, Monghol conqueror, passed away. |
| 7/22/1998 | 24-year old P T Usha won bronze medals in the 400m and 200m races and anchored the 4x100m relay team to gold and 4x400m for silver at the Asian Track and Field Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. |
| 9/28/1984 | First floodlights lit ODI between India and Australia held outside of Australia at New Delhi. |
| 9/18/1879 | Welthy Housinger Fisher, an American adult educationist in India, was born. |
| 4/27/2000 | Arun Bharat Ram takes over as the president of the Confederation of Indian Industry. |
| 2/15/1920 | Kanti Mehta, trade unionist, was born at Calcutta. |
| 11/1/1956 | Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved. |
| 4/8/1998 | Sedapatti R. Muthiah resigns as the Union Surface Transport Minister at the behest of his party supremo Jayalalitha. He is involved in court cases. |
| 2/11/1980 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, passed away. |
| 6/18/1997 | Prakash Padukone launches IBC. |
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