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Historical Event on 10/28/2000
The Royal Canadian Mounted police arrest two Sikhs, Ripudaman Singh Malik (53) and Ajaib Singh Bagri (51), in Vancouver in connection with the downing of Air India Boeing 747 en route from Canada to London in 1985.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/28/1930 | Bhagwaticharan Vohra, great revolutionary freedom fighter, died near the banks of Ravi river during a bomb testing. |
| 2/3/1986 | Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa at Calcutta. |
| 12/23/1954 | Tito, Nehru reject plan for neutral third bloc, yet insist on peaceful co-existence. |
| 11/1/1954 | French handed over their territories of Pondicherry, Mahe, Karikal and Yanon to the Government of India. |
| 10/15/1992 | Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa founder who masterminded the Kanishka jumbo explosion of 1985, was shot by security forces in Punjab. |
| 8/7/1991 | India successfully launches Prithvi-III, surface-to-air missile from Sriharikota. |
| 7/20/1993 | Chander Mohan, son of Haryana CM Bhajanlal, wins the by-elections in the Kalka assembly constitutency by a margin of 61,800 votes. |
| 7/20/1993 | Shahjahan, great mughal emperor of India, was born at Lahore. |
| 8/8/1984 | P.T. Usha at Los Angeles sets record for 400m H. (Women) in 55.42. |
| 12/5/1943 | The Japanese planes attack Calcutta port. |
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