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Historical Event on 12/28/1925

Kasturbhai Lalbhai Shrenik, great industrialist, was born at Ahmedabad.

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6/9/199881 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone.
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12/6/1952First Indo-Soviet Trade agreement signed.
12/30/1953The Untouchability (Offences) Bill published in the Gazette of India.
7/1/1997Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme `97 (VDIS) comes into effect.
9/12/1786Lord Cornwallis was appointed, and became Governor General of India, as well as the Commander-in-Chief Army Officer.
2/8/1936Jawaharlal Nehru elected president of Indian National Congress.
4/4/1997World Bank Atlas for 1997 put India as world's fifth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity estimated around $1318 trillion.
8/3/1994The first successful heart transplant operation was performed at the All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, by a team of doctors led by Prof. P. Venugopal (25-2-96).