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Historical Event on 2/28/1985

M.G. Katre became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/10/89).

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/27/1998Churches and missionary schools come under attack and many were injured in a fresh outbreak of communal violence in Surat and Dangs district of Gujarat even as the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad announce the stepping up of their stir against the alleged conversion of Hindus.
8/20/1974Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed elected President of India with B. D. Jatti as Vice President.
9/11/1875Koyaji Jahangir Kuwanrji, famous economist, was born.
6/2/1997Saudi Boeing 747 Jumbo with 348 people on board misses the Meenambakkam international airport, Chennai and forcelands at Tambaram Air Force strip.
7/21/1911Umashankar Jethalal Joshi, famous Gujarati poet, Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Bamna in Gujarat.
4/18/1959India, Pakistan sign one-year pact on Indus River irrigation.
7/1/1997Prime Minister inaugurated India's first Science City in Calcutta.
9/7/1998Prof. K. M. Chandy, Congress (I) leader and former Governor of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, died in Kochi at the age of 77.
12/13/1989Kashmiri militants release the daughter of Indian Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed as five of their comrades freed from prison.
2/11/1977B.D.Jathi became the second acting President of India.