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Historical Event on 6/28/1972
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/13/2000 | Major General Manuel Saavedra of Uruguay appointed Chief Military observer of the U.N. Mission monitoring the LoC in Kashmir. |
| 4/1/1979 | Central Institute of Fisheries Education came under the Administrative Control of Indian Council of Agricultural Research. |
| 3/3/1919 | Hari Narayan Apte, famous Marathi novelist, passed away. |
| 9/10/1943 | Satyendra Chandra Bardhan, Vakkom Abdul Khader, Fouja Singh, Boniface Pereira and Anandan were hanged on charges of conspiracy to ""wage war against the King"" under the Ememy Agents Ordinance (which was given retrospective effect) at Madras Jail. They sang Vande Mataram and shouted ""Bharat Mata Ki Jai"" when they were being hanged. |
| 10/19/1967 | Dr. C. V. Raman elucidated his new theory on wave motion in respect to vision and dim light. |
| 9/26/1932 | Dr. Manmohan Singh, former finance minister, economist and Governor of R.B.I., was born. |
| 6/26/1992 | The Tin Bigha corridor leased to Bangladesh as per the Indo-Bangladesh agreement. |
| 2/4/1990 | Ernakulam was declared the first totally literate district in India. |
| 5/7/1908 | Sudhabala alias Ermaline was born in Bombay. She was a film actress. Her first film was 'Hothal Padmini' (1925). Some of her films are Kicks of Kismet, Tained Virtue, Red Signal, Wise Fool, Hoor-E-Bagdad. |
| 12/7/1902 | Janardhan Gyanoba Navle, cricketer, India's first Test wicket-keeper, was born at Fulgaon, Maharashtra. He played against England at Lord's in 1932. |
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