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Historical Event on 8/28/1973
India and Pakistan signed P.O.W Accord paving way for release of 90,000 Pakistanis.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/28/1986 | Malayalam film `Chidambaram' directed by G. Aravindan wins best feature film award and Shyam Benegal bags the Best Director award for the Hindi film 'Trikal'. |
| 7/22/1959 | Ananth Kumar was born in Banglore. He is a Minister in Vajpayee's Government. |
| 12/3/1971 | During the ensuing melee, three of the Sabres were shot down while all Gnats returning to base were unscathed. The first blood of a new Indo-Pakistan air war had been drawn. Other encounters were to follow over the next 10 days within both Indian and Pakistani airspace, before a full-scale war began. |
| 9/22/1979 | Maulana Abdul Ali Moudoodi aka Syed Abul A'la Maududi Chishti, founder leader of the Jamait- E- Islam, died in USA, he had taken pakistani citizenship. |
| 1/30/1882 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt, great leader and social reformer, was born at Hyde Park, New York. |
| 1/15/1918 | K.C.D. Brahaspati, great poet, playwright and orientalist, was born at Rampur, UP. |
| 4/22/1921 | Subhas Chandra Bose, resigned from Indian Civil Service, and formed South Calcutta Sevak Samiti after returning to India. He was also arrested for carrying our freedom movement. |
| 12/3/1970 | Rajendra Agriculture University established at Bihar. |
| 3/17/1997 | A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI. |
| 5/14/1993 | Bombay High Court upholds Goa C.M. Ravi Naik's disqualification by speaker under anti-defection bill. |
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