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Historical Event on 7/28/1939
Tarun Ram Phookun, great lawyer, orator, eminent writer and President of the Assam Chhatra Sammelan in 1928, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/12/1905 | Anglo-Japanese treaty provides for Japan to help safeguard India at London. |
| 5/4/1990 | Supreme Court directs Central Government to set up a Tribunal to resolve Cauvery water dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. |
| 10/26/1961 | Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October. |
| 8/5/1905 | Subhadrakumari Chauvhan, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 2/17/1993 | Rani Gaidinliu, freedom fighter, social reformer and political leader, died at her native village in Manipur. The British army made a surprise attack on her position and captured her. On 17th October, 1932, Pandit Nehru once wrote ""A day will come when India will remember her and cherishe her"". |
| 11/6/1904 | Hariharnath Shastri, worker's leader, was born. |
| 8/25/1997 | 10,000 people residing in low lying areas in Gujarat shifted to safer places following incessant rains for two days. Death toll mounts to 265. |
| 8/8/1946 | India agrees to give Bhutan 32 miles. |
| 8/7/1988 | N. T. Ramarao elected chairman and V.P. Singh the convenor of the National Front. |
| 2/24/1988 | Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile. |
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