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Historical Event on 8/28/1997
Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be allowed to contest elections even if an appeal against the conviction was pending in a higher court.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/2/1869 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) born to a Bania (trading caste) family at Porbander, Kathiawar. He was the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand alias Kaba Gandhi, Prime Minister successively in Porbunder, Rajkot and Vankaner States, and his fourth wife Putlibai. |
| 11/2/1971 | Roberto Fernandes, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Goa. |
| 10/29/1952 | Amalgamation of the Steel Corporation of Bengal with Indian Iron and Steel Company Ltd. to be effective from 1st January 1953 under the latter's name. |
| 4/18/1916 | Iyyer G. Subramaniam, Congress leader, passed away. |
| 1/20/1992 | Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup. |
| 6/26/1983 | Five hundred killed or missing as monsoon floods hit the Indian state of Gujarat. |
| 8/12/1922 | Chunilal Kalidas Madiya, famous Gujrati one-act player, play wright story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 1/15/1997 | Pakistan's pilotless surveillance aircraft intrudes into Indian air space for the first time. |
| 7/10/1971 | Kochin University was established in Kerala. |
| 4/8/1994 | Dr. Wilfred D'Souza re-installed as Goa CM. |
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