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Historical Event on 10/28/1998
The 1997 B.C. Roy National Award was presented to 18 medical experts.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/7/1856 | First Hindu widow married officially. |
| 2/11/1942 | Jamnalal Bajaj, greatest iIndustrialist, social reformer, freedom fighter and Gandhiwadi, passed away. |
| 2/23/1994 | India rebuts Pak charges on Kashmir in the 53-nation UN Commission on Human Rights. |
| 1/1/1983 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Communications Year"". |
| 7/1/1909 | Madanlal Dhingra, revolutionary, assassinated Sir William Curzon Wyllie, a prominent Anglo-Indian, at the Imperial Institute in London. |
| 5/18/1966 | Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists. |
| 10/16/1999 | Geet Sethi bagged the Fred Davis award as the "Billiards Player of the Year 1998-99' |
| 4/18/1612 | Marriage of Shahjahan and Mumtaj Mahal. |
| 6/6/1935 | Harry Crews, great US writer and actor (Indian Runner), was born. |
| 10/12/1976 | Indian Airlines Caravelle crashed after take off from Bombay. |
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