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Historical Event on 12/28/1981

Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/10/1996Budget session of Parliament begins.
11/22/1989Rajindernath, great Indian wicketkeeper 1 Test and 0 runs 0 ct, 4 stp, passed away.
5/3/1998Kushabhau Thakre takes over as the new BJP President.
3/13/1915Keshao Govind Jodh, social reformer, politician and lawyer, was born in Yevada, Maharashtra.
7/25/1813First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed.
10/10/1957Jagdeep', a children's film, won the first prize at the Ninth International Exhibition of Films for Children at Venice.
1/27/1967Maharashtra State Text book manufacturing and carriculum modification Corporation established at Pune.
1/22/1986Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Awards instituted.
11/18/1994Bipinchandra Joshi, cheif of Army and General, passed away at the age of 54 years.
1/31/1948Cities swept by riots in wake of Gandhi murder.