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Historical Event on 3/28/1999
Pakistan decides to ease visa restrictions for the aged, women and children from India in response to New Delhi's move towards visa relaxation for several categories of Pakistani nationals.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/28/1999 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 8/9/1995 | India celebrated 53rd anniversary of Quit India movement. |
| 12/17/1933 | Lala Amarnath scores a century (118) in his Test Cricket debut. |
| 6/5/1974 | Smallpox epidemic in the country. |
| 5/13/1991 | P. Sudhir Kumar released in exchange for a few Naxals in jail. |
| 3/23/1982 | Annasaheb Patil, father of Maratha Mahasangh, passed away. |
| 9/24/1992 | India's Leander Paes defeats Britain's Jeremy Bates in the Davis Cup tie in New Delhi. |
| 5/17/1927 | A.N. Radhakrishnan, great educationist, was born. |
| 1/4/1964 | The First Diesel Engine came out of the Varanasi Diesel Engine Carshed. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
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