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28 February - India on this day26 events

1835

Medical College was started in Calcutta and it was officially opened on Feb 20.

#foundation#education28-February-1835
1968

International City Auroville inaugurated the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondechery.

#foundation28-February-1968
1989

S. B. Chavan, Finance Minister, presents a Rs. 7337 crore-deficit budget for 1989-90.

#money28-February-1989
1900

Kondedera Madappa Kariappa, first General of independent India, was born.

#birth28-February-1900
1919

Sunderlal Khurana, great politician and journalist, was born.

#birth28-February-1919
1927

Krishan Kant, vice President of India and former Young Turk, was born at Kot Mohd. Khan, district Amritsar, Punjab.

#birth28-February-1927
1951

Karsan Devji Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s), was born in Rajkot.

#birth28-February-1951
1919

Gandhiji signs Satyagraha Pledge to secure withdrawal of Rowlatt Bills.

#freedom fighter28-February-1919
1936

Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland.

#freedom fighter#death#women28-February-1936
1580

The first visit of Jesuit Priest of Goa in the Court of Emperor Akbar at Fatehpur Sikri.

#religion#meeting28-February-1580
1950

The Finance Minister announces the setting up of the Planning Commission with Nehru and Nanda as Chairman and Deputy Chairman respectively.

#general28-February-1950
1997

The samadhi of Morarji Desai - Abhay Ghat - near Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad to be converted to a national monument, this was decided on Feburary 11.

#general28-February-1997
1568

Chittorgarh Fort was captured by Mughal Emperor Akbar which was circled from outside since 20th October 1567. This victory was achieved with the help of Jaimal and Patta.

#royal event28-February-1568
1918

Srinivas Ramanujan, famous Indian scientist, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

#science28-February-1918
1928

C. V. Raman invented 'Raman Effect' of scattered light, which led him in achieving the 'Nobel Prize'.

#science#award28-February-1928
1930

Sir Chandrasekhar V. Raman, Scientist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering "Raman Effect". He is also the first Indian to receive this honor in Physics, The Indian Nobel Laureates.

#science#award28-February-1930
1987

The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event).

#science28-February-1987
2000

The Supreme Court orders notice to the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalitha, on a special leave petition filed by the State Government against the Madras High Court judgment upholding the trial court's order discharging her in the "coal import case".

#law#controversy#women28-February-2000
1930

Strike by workers of the Nizam state railways over bonus.

#transport28-February-1930
1712

Bahadur Shah I died at Lahore at the age of 72 in the war of succession.

#death28-February-1712
1859

Surbhi, farmer lady of Dholi Bavli, Central India, who was arrested for helping her son Bheema Nayak in the freedom movement and was jailed in Mahamandaleshwar jail, passed away.

#death#women28-February-1859
1884

Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, passed away.

#death28-February-1884
1963

Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, passed away at Sadaqat Ashram, Patna.

#death#politics28-February-1963
1988

Jaydev, famous music director, passed away.

#death28-February-1988
1967

General Election ( 4th) of India ends.

#politics28-February-1967
1998

The third and final phase of polling is held in 131 Lok Sabha constituencies in 10 States and one Union Territory.

#politics28-February-1998