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Historical Event on 8/28/1993
President's rule in J&K extended for another six months.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/25/1990 | S. S. Chauhan, one of the students who had suffered severe burns while trying to immolate himself in protest against implementation of Mandal Commission Report, died. |
| 10/1/1958 | Metric System of weights was introduced in India. |
| 6/5/1974 | Smallpox epidemic in the country. |
| 5/13/1994 | Telecom sector opened to private companies under the new national policy announced in Parliament. |
| 7/1/1879 | Post Card of one paisa was started in India by the Post and Telegraph Department. |
| 5/28/1925 | Awadh Kishore Narain, educationist, was born. |
| 10/29/1930 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two yearrs following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail. |
| 12/30/1865 | Rudyard Kipling, famous English litterateur and author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), was born in Bombay. |
| 5/27/1992 | M. L. Manchanda, AIR's Patiala engineer who was kidnapped by Babbar Khalsa militants, was found executed. |
| 9/23/1990 | World Bank clears Rs.1,200 crore aid for Sarovar Dam rejecting objections raised by environmental groups. |
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