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Historical Event on 2/28/1937
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/22/1997 | India outplays Poland in the final hockey `Test' and win series 2-0. |
| 3/21/1976 | The Indian people have delivered a stinging rebuke to the woman who had ruled them without the benefit of a constitution for the past 19 months by dumping her from office in a landslide election. After 11 years of rule, Indira Gandhi has resigned, and in an uncharacteristically humble statement said she ""accepted the verdict unreservedly"" and promised ""constructive cooperation"" with the new government. The heads of the victorious parties immediately dropped the year-and-a-half-old state of emergency, freed political prisoners, and began negotiations over who would head the new government. |
| 12/17/1998 | P. M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) was unanimously elected Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha. |
| 3/28/1994 | Leaders attack trade protectionism. |
| 1/19/1995 | Goa Cong (I) government led by Pratap Singh Rane gets absolute majority when 4-members of MGP merged with Congress. |
| 10/10/1844 | Badruddin Taibjee, lawyer and leader, was born. |
| 10/3/1978 | Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta. |
| 2/22/1958 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away in New Delhi, India. He was a great leader, great orator, revolutionary and fighter for national freedom. Some of his works which are the masterpieces of the Urdu language are ""Ghubari-Khatir"" and Tadhkirah"". He was Minister of Education in the first Indian Government. |
| 10/29/1990 | Vinod Mehra, famous Hindi film actor, died. |
| 2/21/1990 | The Bombay Sappers join the club of the select few, who received colours from the President of India (21-2-90). |
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