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Historical Event on 6/28/1975
As a response to anti-government demonstrations, India imposes the toughest press censorship since independence.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/15/1969 | Indian Navy's first Helicopter Squadron was commissioned in Goa. |
3/13/1958 | Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet, literateur and writer,died at the age of 80. |
8/13/1953 | Durgabai Deshmukh became the founder Chairperson of Central Social Welfare Board, which involved several voluntary organisations and workers carrying out programs like education, training and rehabilitation of needy women etc. |
5/27/1990 | Om Prakash Chautala, former CM, wins Mehem by-election. |
5/17/2000 | The Union Cabinet clears a proposal for setting up a new appellate tribunal for foreign exchange following the repeal of the FERA and the enactment of FEMA in its place. |
3/30/1923 | New financial measures come into force, including restoration of Salt Tax. |
4/1/1954 | Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee became the first Indian to become the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 08/Nov/1960. |
12/28/1931 | The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him. |
1/19/1892 | Chintaman Vinayak Joshi, famous Marathi comedy writer, was born. |
4/4/1994 | Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns. |
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