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Historical Event on 10/28/1997
Dr. V. Doreswamy Iyengar (77), Veena maestro, household name among Carnatic music lovers, passed away in Bangalore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/17/1971 | Ceasefire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir and end of Indo-Pak war. |
| 8/29/1991 | Second operational Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1B) launched by a Russian launch vehicle, Vostok. It is still in service. |
| 3/22/1906 | Bhagwant Bhikaji Samant, educationalist, was born. |
| 5/27/1906 | Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika Day. |
| 3/22/1885 | Gulam Yazdani, great archaeologist and critic, was born. |
| 1/7/1993 | The union govt. acquires 67.703 acres of land in and around the disputed area at Ayodhya and refers the issue to the Supreme Court. |
| 5/29/1933 | Gandhi ends his 21-day fast, his second for the cause of the 'untouchables'. |
| 3/6/1962 | Ambika Chakrovorty, great revolutionary and warrior, passed away. |
| 5/4/1849 | Jyotirindranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur and poet, was born. |
| 7/7/1937 | Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta. |
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