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Historical Event on 8/28/1993
President's rule in J&K extended for another six months.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/23/1967 | Pandey Bechain Sharma (Ugra) passed away. |
| 5/19/1953 | State to control production and distribution of minerals involved in atomic energy development. |
| 2/25/1897 | Dr. Amarnath Jha, educationist, was born. |
| 5/2/1968 | Lok Sabha passed the Public Providend Fund Act. |
| 8/6/1997 | Army confirms social activist Sanjay Ghose's death who was abducted by ULFA. |
| 5/11/1993 | Toy factory fire kills over 200 people in Bangalore. |
| 1/28/1951 | Kashmir issue taken up in UN security council. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 1/10/1993 | India asks Pakistan to reduce its diplomatic strength by 40. |
| 3/15/1992 | Dr. Rahi Masum Raza, film screenplay, story and dialogue writer, passed away at the age of 64 years. |
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