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Historical Event on 8/28/1896
Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar, great musician and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Chembai in Kerala.
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| 3/1/1994 | Manmohan Desai, famous Hindi film maker, passed away. He was 57. |
| 3/9/1902 | Edward Durell Stone, US architect (US Embassy, New Delhi), was born. |
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| 3/8/1948 | Air India International was established for overseas services. |
| 9/5/1979 | Earl of Mountbatten's funeral held in Burma. |
| 9/5/1979 | Saint Visoba Khechar, was the yogi-guru of the Varkari poet-saint Namdev of Maharashtra, took Samadhi. |
| 8/30/1989 | Anti-government riots leave at least 11 dead. |
| 8/30/1989 | Humayun crossed the Indus and captured Lahore and ousted Sikandar Suri of Delhi throne. |
| 6/10/1908 | Mary Clubwala Jadhav, politician and social worker, was born. |
| 9/3/1931 | Kanhaiya Prasad Sharan, politician, journalist and social worker, was born at Muzaffapur, Bihar. |
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