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Historical Event on 3/28/1978

Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe (1997), was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/23/1903Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Today in 1903
2/13/1970Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 people at a village 80-km from New Delhi.
3/6/1997Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) inaugurated in Mauritius.
11/18/1727Maharaja Jai Singh-II of Amber laid the stone of Jaipur City. Vidyadhar Chakravarty of Bengal was the architect of the first planned city in India.
6/1/1964Nava Paisa, established in 1947, was renamed as 'Paisa'.
5/4/1994Fourth developmental launch of ASLV. 113 kg Stretched Rohini Satellite Series (SROSS-C2) was launched by fourth developmental flight of ASLV-D4 from Sriharikota. This carried two scientific payload, a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) experiment and a Retarding Potential Analyser (RPA). It is still in service.
12/5/1943The Japanese planes attack Calcutta port.
4/16/1958Raghuram Adwai Bhat, great Indian left-arm spinner 1983-84, was born at Mangalore.
2/8/1936Manohar Shankar Hardikar, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests India vs West Indies in 1958-59), was born in Baroda.
1/14/1982First Antarctic Expedition on December 1981-Jan 1982; group of 21 Indian scientists team led by S. Z. Qasim reached Antarctica successfully.