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Historical Event on 12/28/1981
Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/20/1897 | Gandhiji declines to prosecute assailants. |
| 3/1/1910 | The Dalai Lama is welcomed in Darjeeling. |
| 6/8/1897 | Manindranath Basu, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 3/21/1996 | PSLV-D3 launched successfully. |
| 10/5/1990 | Dr. Rajkumar Varma, famous Hindi journalist and playwright, died. |
| 10/10/1998 | Uzma Khan and Nitin Kirtane bag the women's and men's crowns in the national tennis championships in Delhi. |
| 1/14/1843 | Fakir Mohan Senapati, great writer and nationalist, was born. |
| 1/1/1897 | Girja Dayal Girish, great poet and writer, was born at Saraiyan Mahipat Singh, U.P. |
| 1/15/1656 | Chhatrapati Shivaji conquered Javali state. |
| 6/25/1908 | Sucheta Kriplani, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born. |
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