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Historical Event on 12/28/1998

India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/9/1981Pandit Sundarlal, great revolutionary and writer of 'Bharat Mein Angreji Raj', passed away.
1/12/1757Captain Eyre Coote from the Portuguese was captured in Bandel.
12/4/1829Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)
6/26/1954Nehru, Chou En-lai pledge good-neighbor policy at New Delhi.
7/3/1948H. M. S. Auchils was taken over by Indian Navy.
7/1/1955Imperial Bank of India was inaugurated and was renamed as State Bank of India.
10/11/1876Saint Gadgebaba, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born.
1/27/1984First unit of Atomic Energy Production Centre started at Kalpakkam.
7/16/1905A decision to boycott British goods was taken at Bagarhat.
6/23/1920Kesri Jagannathrao Joshi, senior leader of Janata Party in Karnataka, was born.