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Historical Event on 2/28/1968
International City Auroville inaugurated the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondechery.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/18/1995 | The latest deaths in northern India's hottest weather this century bring the death toll to 525 as temperatures hit 113¦F (45¦C) in New Delhi. |
| 8/13/1951 | First test flight of 'Hindustan Trainer-2' (H.T.2) which was indigenously designed and manufactured in India. |
| 9/26/1999 | Atal Behari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, dispatched a team of experts to Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to assess the water storage position. |
| 11/20/1947 | Parliament gives Indian government censorship powers over press at New Delhi. |
| 11/20/1947 | Vallabhacharya, founder of 'Pushthimarg Panth', was born. |
| 10/19/1983 | Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler. |
| 2/19/1818 | Bapu Gokhle, last General of Maratha kingdom, passed away. |
| 7/10/1949 | Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, great Indian cricket player (opener, 10,122 Test runs), was born in Bombay. He has received Arjun Award (1975) and Padma Bhushan (1980). |
| 6/21/1941 | Chakravorty Rajgopalachari became the First Indian Governor General of India. |
| 5/13/1967 | Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) retired from the post of second President. |
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