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Historical Event on 12/28/1981

Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/23/1961Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films.
5/22/1953Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Darjeeling and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were the first to conquer the Mount Everest (World).
4/20/1989Launching of IRBM `Agni' fails.
7/24/1985Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sikh leader Sant Harchand Singh Longowal of Akali Dal signed a peace contract known as 'Punjab Accord' thus ending the four-year agitation in Punjab.
12/13/1986Smita Patil, famous film actress, passed away.
12/25/1994Giani Zail Singh, former President of India, died in Chandigarh at the age of 78.
5/26/1931One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras.
4/10/1995Morarji Ranchhodji Desai, first non-Congress Prime Minister of India (1977-79) and Chief Minister of Bombay, passed away at the age of 99. He was awarded with Bharat Ratna.
5/30/1977Express Train fell into Beki river in Assam killing 44 persons.
9/21/2000J.W. Singh, suspended Mumbai High Court judge facing charges of extortion in nexus with the underworld, dismissed from judicial service.