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Historical Event on 8/28/1976

Second World Hindi Conference held in Mauritius.

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5/29/1979Perminder Singh Sangha, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Oslo, Norway.
2/17/1931Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"".
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10/27/1999The Archbishop of Delhi rules out Pope John Paul II's dialogue with the VHP during his visit to India in November.
2/25/1977Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun.
8/16/1991C. Achuta Menon, former CM of Kerala, passed away.
6/14/1886Orphanage for little girls was established.
6/24/1996Cong(I) enters into an electoral alliance with Bahujan Samaj Party for forthcoming Assembly election in UP.
3/11/1689Sambhaji, Shivaji's successor, who was captured at Sangameshwar, was assasinated in the prison of Aurangzeb by Mughal officer Muqurab Khan.
7/29/1927Madhavsingh Solanki, one of the leaders in Gujarat, was born.