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Historical Event on 10/28/1997

Gold import placed under Open General Licence.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/30/1935Lord Reading, former Viceroy and Governor General of India, died at the age of 76 at UK.
9/9/1812The first paper currency was issued by the Bank of Bengal. The notes of this bank were later printed by Perkins, Heath & Co. in England. They can be distinguished into at least 10 different types. They were issued in a wide range of denominations from Rs. 10 to Rs. 1000.
12/30/1993Government gets majority when 10 members of Ajit faction of the JD merge with the Congress.
10/27/2000The Vajpayee Government 'clears' the names of Surjit Singh Barnala, Prabhat Kumar and Dinanath Tiwari for appointment as the Governors of the new States of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh respectively.
1/1/1975Shankarrao Vasudev Kirloskar, famous iindustrialist, died.
2/13/1713Sultan Jahandar Shah was strangled to death. Farrukhsiyar captured the throne of Delhi from Jahandar Shah with the assistance of two Sayyid brothers.
3/3/1978Origin of Saka Era (India).
5/5/1929Curfew was imposed in a bid to quell Hindu-Muslim riots that had claimed 21 lives in Bombay.
12/4/1998Ilayaraja, nusic composer, selected for the Lata Mangeshkar award instituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government.
1/19/1977World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'.