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Historical Event on 9/28/1984

First floodlights lit ODI between India and Australia held outside of Australia at New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/2/1991Thiruvananthapuram airport declared India's fifth International Airport.
1/18/1992Ordinance cuts minimum poll campaign time to 14 days from 20 days.
6/13/1973Sir Ram Nath Chopra, great professor of Pharmacology of National Drug Research Institute of India, passed away.
2/25/1886Narmadashankar Lalshankar Dave 'Narmad', social reformer and famous Gujrati litterateur, passed away.
3/20/1782Colonel James Tod, author and researcher of Rajput history, was born.
1/30/1997Fifth Pay Commission submits proposals; minimum salary Rs. 2440 pm and maximum 26,000. Cabinet Secretary 30,000; six-day week; retirement at 60, etc. proposed.
1/9/1918Harprasad Nanda, famous Industrialist, was born.
2/18/1993Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"".
3/28/1990Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient.
9/14/1923Ram Jethmalani, famous law expert and politician, was born.