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Historical Event on 6/28/1972
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945.
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| 8/13/1995 | Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar. |
| 11/13/1922 | Mahadev Sadashivrao Ande, freedom fighter and political leader, was born. |
| 10/3/1999 | India finished with seven silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Junior Athletic Championship in Singapore. |
| 1/16/1681 | Sambhaji was crowned as the successor of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in a function held at Raigad Fort. |
| 10/31/2000 | The Income Tax Department 'indicts' five cricketers - Kapil Dev, Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Nikhil Chopra and Ajay Sharma - for tax evasion and concealment of income earned through ""dubious sources' |
| 8/12/1997 | Gulshan Kumar of Super Cassette Industries was shot dead by four unidentified persons in north-west Mumbai. |
| 6/6/1982 | Devraj Ars, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, passed away. |
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