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Historical Event on 8/28/1998
India and Pakistan clash at the Security Council after New Delhi denounced the running of terrorist training camps in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Afghanistan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/16/1856 | Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar, on the request of Governor Lord Canning, instituted a law announcing the right of Hindu widows for re-marriage. |
| 7/16/1856 | Meerabai, saint poet, passed away. |
| 8/10/1979 | Rohini Technology Payload (RTP) intended for measuring in-flight performance of first experimental flight of SLV-3, the first Indian Space launch vehicle, failed to be placed in orbit. |
| 5/9/1919 | Ram Kumar Gupta, great industrialist, was born at Delhi. |
| 1/10/1818 | The last battle was fought in Rampura between the Marathas and the company. |
| 9/4/1983 | INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully. |
| 11/16/1986 | Second SAARC summit held at Bangalore. |
| 4/19/1910 | Anant Laxman Kanhere, revolutionary, was hanged. |
| 1/25/1983 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Acharya Vinobha Bhave (Posthumous) (1895-1982). |
| 7/27/1928 | Rameshwar Sahai Saxena, famous writer, lawyer and journalist, was born at Lalitpur, (UP). |
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