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Historical Event on 2/28/1967

General Election ( 4th) of India ends.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/1908Gandhiji adopts word, ""Satyagraha"" in place of ""Passive Resistance"". Sentenced to two months' imprisonment for failure to leave Transvaal.
7/18/1993India beats France 3-2 in a sensational Davis Cup tie to enter into the semi-final.
8/5/1909Dwijhans Kalika Prasad Dixit, great poet and educationist, was born at Gram Dedani in Uttar Pradesh.
4/15/1883Narhar Raghunath Phatak, famous journalist and historian, was born.
12/9/1993Virbhadra Singh sworn in as Congress CM of Himachal Pradesh.
10/1/1953The first new state in India since 1949, Andhra Pradesh, is established on purely linguistic basis and formally inaugurated. This state was created by sub-dividing state of India, Madras Province and this movement was started by Shriramulu for which he had to sacrifice his life.
9/29/2000Tata Ramachandra Prasad to be the next Cabinet Secretary.
12/27/1999PSCB's Prathima Kumari shattered the National clean and jerk mark twice in the women's 58-kg class on the second day of the senior national weightlifting championship in Kalyan.
2/5/1922Amar Nath Sehgal, sculptor, was born at Campbellpur (W. Pakistan). His important works are ""Voice of Africa (Ghana-1958)"", A Cricketer (1961) and Mahatma Gandhi, Amritsar, To space Unknown (bronze, Moscow-1963)"", etc.
12/24/1988Jaynendra Kumar, famous Hindi novelist, died.