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Historical Event on 10/28/1997

Govt. extends ceasefire in Nagaland by 3 months from October 31.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/24/1998India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah, beating Australia by six wickets in the final.
4/18/1931Lord Willingdon took over as the Viceroy of India.
1/30/1948Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the spiritual leader of Indian independence, was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist. The 78-year-old Gandhi was shot at point-blank range as he was walking through a garden to a pergola, where he was to deliver his daily prayer meeting.
4/7/1986Charles Sobhraj and his associate David Hall were nabbed at Mapusa in Goa.
8/5/1991Leila Seth was sworn the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court. She is a judge of Delhi High Court.
8/5/1991Husain Quli, the new Governor of Bengal, defeated the rebels and put them to fight. Daud was captured and put to death.
1/23/1978The motto ""Shastra se Shakti"" (Strength though arms) in Hindi written in Devengiri script was approved by the President of India as the motto of the Army Ordnance Corps.The original corps motto of the Ordnance corps was ""Usa Tela Tananti"" found in the arms of the board of Ordnance. This was translated to mean ""To the thunder his arms"". The corps song titled ""Ayudh Corps Mahan"" was introduced for the first time in 4th re-union of the Army Ordnance Corps. The song is to be played or sung ""within unit lines only"", during purely Regimental functions.
3/20/1782Colonel James Tod, author and researcher of Rajput history, was born.
6/23/1984An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid.
4/1/1912The imperial capital of India was moved from Calcutta to Old New Delhi and the Province of Delhi was declared by a proclamation.