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Historical Event on 12/28/1996

India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in the first innings of the game.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/22/1982South-South Conference opens in New Delhi.
11/13/1999Punjab Police men, Railways women emerged Federation Cup basketball champions in Jalandhar.
7/20/1903British to increase size of Royal Army in India.
6/23/1810Duncan Dock of Bombay was completed.
3/30/1990Constitution (64th) Amendment Bill to extend President's rule in Punjab collapses in Lok Sabha.
5/7/1889Dr. Narayan Subbarao Hardikar, freedom fighter, journalist and Padmabhushan awardee, was born.
5/23/1990Banarasi Das Gupta elected CM of Haryana following Om Prakash Chautala's resignation.
9/17/1960Agreement reached with Pakistan on the distribution of the River Indus and its tributaries.
4/7/1920Ravi Shankar Bhattacharya, renowned Sitar player (Sounds of India), was born in Banaras, India.
3/22/1907Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament.