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Historical Event on 9/28/1985

The first Indian Army expedition, sailing around the world in a small 37 feet fibre glass yacht named ""Trishna"", sailed off from Bombay. (10-1-87).

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/2/1938Chandrakumar Agarwala, assamia poet, passed away.
12/11/1958Wilson Jones became India's first individual World Champion when he won the Amateur Billiards Championship.
1/16/1992For the first time in a decade, India decides to import one million tonnes of wheat.
4/4/1858Rani Laxmibai fled to Gwalior through Kalpi after giving a solid blow to British troops.
7/10/1997Malleswari earns India's first gold medal in Asian weightlifting championship in Beijing.
9/2/1984Thousands of Sikhs rally at Golden Temple to protest govt. occupation in Amritsar.
1/28/2000Indian junior cricket team wins the Youth cricket World Cup.
11/24/1988Mizoram became the first Lok Sabha member.
4/16/1848Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Telegu author and social reformer, was born in Andhra Pradesh.
11/1/1967Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory.