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Historical Event on 2/28/1985

M.G. Katre became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/10/89).

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/20/1997Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat arrives in New Delhi. India and Palestinian national authority take stock of stalled West Asia peace process. Two sides sign first umbrella Memorandum of Understanding.
8/20/1979Indian premier Charan Singh resigns.
5/11/1999Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19.
6/4/1953University of Cambridge confers honorary Doctorate of Laws on J. L. Nehru.
12/11/1999Leander Paes capped a brilliant year with his successive Challenger title, this time in Jaipur, beating Barry Cowan in the final.
4/26/1813Swati Tirunal Ramavarma, outstanding composer of Carnatic music in Kerala, was born in a royal family of Travancore.
3/1/1924Naresh Mehta was born.
10/28/1998Ghulam Ahmed, former Indian cricket captain, died in Hyderabad.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
12/29/1983Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* vs West Indies.