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Historical Event on 8/28/1904

First car rally between Calcutta to Barakpur held.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/28/1990Following the war threat as the January 15 deadline set by UN for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait approaches, GOI advise Indians in Gulf to send back their families to India.
11/5/1929Narottam Morarjee, great social reformer and the architect of the modern Indian Shipping, died.
7/28/1912Ramchandra Gondo Ginde, famous neuro surgeon, was born.
11/23/1990Madhavrao Ganesh (Balasaheb Dixit), founder of daily news paper ""Turun Bharat"", passed away.
12/11/1958Wilson Jones became India's first individual World Champion when he won the Amateur Billiards Championship.
1/15/1949General K. N. Kariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief. He was the first Indian to reach to this post in Indian Army. In 1956, he was designated as Chief of the Army Staff - General, later Field Marshal. This event is commemoratively observed as Army Day.
4/22/1983Smt. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, visited ICMR Headquarters and held discussions with senior scientists of ICMR. ICMR revived research on indigenous drugs/traditional medicine with a new, disease-oriented approach and a Scientific Advisory Group on Traditional Medicine Research was constituted in 1983 but actual studies (Multicentric Clinical Trials, Centres for Advanced Research, Central Biostatistical Monitoring Unit etc.) were started in 1984-85.
7/21/1962Passenger Train and Freight Train collided near Dumraon killing 69 persons.
9/30/1990Former Dy PM Devilal submits his letter of resignation.
9/4/1947Gandhiji breaks fast.