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Historical Event on 8/28/1904

First car rally between Calcutta to Barakpur held.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/17/1950Syed Wazir Ali, cricketer (7 Tests for India), passed away.
1/24/1952The first International Film Festival of India held in Bombay, this event had a great impact on Indian Cinema.
11/16/1986Second SAARC summit held at Bangalore.
9/13/1990An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka.
5/28/1883Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, was born at Bhagur village near Nasik.
3/9/1931The Tories decide not to attend future round table talks on India in London.
1/31/1983The first floating Dry Dock was launched at Howrah.
5/20/1999The CWC expels Sharad Pawar, M. P. A. Sangma and Tariq Anwar for six years from the primary membership of the party.
11/8/1927Lal Krishna Adwani was born in Karachi (now in Pakistan).
7/14/1923Iqbal Singh Bhatia, great educationist, was born at Kotla Qasim Khan, (Pakistan).