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Historical Event on 7/28/1921
The All-India Congress Party votes to boycott a forthcoming visit by the Prince of Wales and urges a boycott of imported cloth.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/5/1921 | Malhi Govind, modern Sindhi novelist, was born. |
| 5/18/1973 | A powerful underground explosion rocked India's desert of Rajasthan today, making India the sixth nation in history to set off a nuclear device. The blast, which took place at a depth of 330 feet, was in the range of 10-15 kilotons, smaller than the bomb exploded by the US at Nagasaki in World War II. India is signatory to the 1963 test ban treaty, and thus was prohibited from exploding the device on land or in the air. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi claimed the purpose of the test was peaceful and said 'such explosions may have their use in mining operations'. |
| 11/2/1885 | Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar (Annasaheb), first great Marathi musical drama playwright, died. |
| 10/11/1941 | Amitabh Bachchan, famous film actor, was born. |
| 10/16/1788 | Maratha's crowned Shahaalam as king of Delhi. |
| 6/18/1946 | First Satyagraha movement was started for Goa liberation from the Portuguese. |
| 4/1/1920 | S. Bhattacharya, cricket Test Umpire for 2 tests from 1963-70, was born in Delhi. |
| 7/9/1969 | Sagi Lakshmi Venkatapathy Raju, cricketer (Indian slow left-armer), was born in Hyderabad. |
| 4/22/1840 | James Princes, British research scientist and archeaologist, passed away. |
| 12/8/1999 | Dr. Shankar K. Pal of the Indian Statistical Institute selected for the G.D. Birla Award for 1999. |
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