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Historical Event on 8/28/1972

General Insurance Business was nationalised.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/24/1880Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born.
4/30/1936Mahatma Gandhi started staying in Sevagram Ashram at Wardha in the Central Provinces, making it his headquarters.
9/29/1914Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries.
4/6/1956Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1976-92),was born in Rajapur, Maharashtra. He has received Arjun Award (1981) and Padmashree (1987).
11/6/1904Hariharnath Shastri, worker's leader, was born.
12/31/1900Krishna Narayan Ratanjankar, famous musician and writer of Tan Sangrah in three parts and Abhinav Geet Mangari, was born in Bombay.
11/30/1759Alamgir was murdered by his minister Imad-ul-Mulk.
10/14/1953Raghunath Dhondo Karve, Family Planning and Sex Education preacher, died.
9/30/1997At least 20 civilians were killed and over 30 injured in unprovoked firing by Pakistani troops on Kargil town in Jammu&Kashmir.
3/15/1908Police shoot four people in rioting.