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Historical Event on 8/28/1997

Tiwari and Surinderjit Kaur set national records in hammer throw in Federation Cup Athletics.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/14/1989Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985.
4/9/1986First University in India devoted to hygiene established at Vijaywada.
8/15/1960Maharashtra State Sahkari Grihvitta Corporation was established.
11/21/1914Ujwala Mazumdar, freedom fighter and member of Bengal Valunteers, was born at Dhaka.
7/2/1998India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement on promoting agricultural research in New Delhi.
3/31/1992The new five-year Export-Import policy relaxes restrictions.
2/23/1994India rebuts Pak charges on Kashmir in the 53-nation UN Commission on Human Rights.
12/26/1985Rajiv Gandhi and Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq meet in Delhi and agree not to attack nuclear plants in each other's country.
1/22/1877Tarun Ram Phookun, ''Deshabhakta'', great lawyer, orator, eminent writer and President of the Assam Chhatra Sammelan in 1928, was born in Gauhati, district Kamrup, Assam.
5/1/1908Praful Chaki committed suicide after he threw a bomb on Judge Kingsford of Mujaffarpur, killing two inocent women.