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Historical Event on 1/28/1999

Central Zone won the Deodhar Trophy, defeating South in their final in Agartala.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/27/2000Gurucharan Singh goes down fighting to Andri Fedtchouk of Ukraine in the 81 Kg bout of the Olympics boxing.
2/8/1999Gen. K. Sundarji (69), former Chief of Army Staff, died in New Delhi.
10/9/2000The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it.
1/15/1784Sir William Jones, Judge and linguist, and Sir Warren Hastings established the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta. This was the first scholastic institution.
10/2/1986Rajiv Gandhi survives assassination attempt made by Sikh extremists at Raj Ghat.
6/9/199881 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone.
8/20/1885First meeting of the Indian National Congress held.
4/2/1926The worst Hindu-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta.
12/1/1932A round-table conference on India fails to reach an agreement at London.
12/24/2000The Government re-instates Dr. R.S.Paroda as the Director-General of the ICAR.