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Historical Event on 9/28/1993

Gas pipe below Karakas National Highway exploded claiming 58 lives.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/3/1930George John Fernandes, social reformer and politician, was born in Mangalore (Karnataka).
12/5/1999India's Yukta Mookhey is crowned Miss World.
1/17/1993LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast.
7/4/2000Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''.
7/20/1916Habibur Rehman Ebrahim Chowdhary, cricket Test Umpire for 4 tests from 1959-64, was born at Mumbai.
11/6/1998Koneru Humpy wins the World under-12 girls' chess title in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. Azharuddin becomes the highest run-getter (displacing Desmond Haynes, 8648 runs) in LOI history in the Coca Cola cup, Sharjah.
3/19/1911Santosh Kumar Ganguly, cricket test empire and 10 test 1955-65, was born in Bengal. He also played Hockey and Football. He is the aurthor of ""Manual of Cricket Umpires"" and ""Technique of Umpiring Hockey"".
12/25/1889Pandurangi Kodanda Rao, journalist, Hindi writer and social worker, was born in Visakhapatnam, A.P.
9/17/1998Rabri Devi, Chief Minister of Bihar, expands the Cabinet, inducting nine ministers, even as the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Soren) group formally withdraws support to her ministry.
8/29/1928Hiralal Ghisulal Gaikwad, cricket all-rounder who played the only test vs Pakistan, was born in Nagpur.