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Historical Event on 1/28/1961

Foundation-stone of the first factory of H.M.T. wrist watches laid in Bangalore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/18/1994Munis Raza, famous educationist and former Chancellor of Delhi University, passed away.
4/23/1938Viceroy Lord Linlithgow opens the hydro-electric scheme at Malakand.
11/7/2000The BJP firebrand Uma Bharti makes a triumphant return to the Union Ministry as Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs and Arun Jaitley gets elevated as Cabinet Minister in a mini expansion. Maj.Gen. (Retd) B. C. Khanduri takes oath as Minister of State for Transport and Highways.
11/7/2000Saint Francis Xavier, Jesuit priest, Spanish missionary teaching in India and Japan, was born in the Spanish kingdom of Navarre.
6/16/1990GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops.
7/16/1981India performs nuclear Test.
9/29/1992Andhra CM Janardhana Reddy resigned.
7/8/1996Mathematical Olympiad was held in Mumbai - the first time in India (from 08-17, 1996).
8/27/1958Metric system of weights and measures introduced.
5/26/1998Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation.