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Historical Event on 4/28/1974
Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta, famous economist, politician and journalist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/13/1916 | Vasudev Mahadev Salgaonkar, great Industrialist, was born. |
| 9/2/1992 | Shripad Deshpande, senior journalist, passed away. |
| 3/24/2000 | Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics. |
| 8/27/1781 | Haider Ali and the Britishers fought the battle of Pallilore. |
| 12/27/1998 | Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen unveils his plans to set up a charity trust with the award money for development of education and health in India and Bangladesh. |
| 10/3/1903 | Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationist, was born. |
| 1/5/1893 | Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions. |
| 1/30/1993 | Congress (I) MLA in Andhra Pradesh P. Balaraju and eight officials kidnapped by the outlawed People's War Group in Visakhapatnam district. |
| 5/27/2000 | In a mini cabinet reshuffle, Nitish Kumar gets back his Agriculture portfolio, while Dilip Ray resigns as Minister of State for Steel. |
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