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Historical Event on 9/28/1984
First floodlights lit ODI between India and Australia held outside of Australia at New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/24/1934 | Arvind Laxman Apte, right-hand batsman, was born in Mumbai. |
| 3/14/1931 | First Indian talkie film 'Alam Ara' released at Majestic Cinema, Bombay. Directed by Ardeshir Irani, the film was 11,152 ft. long and was produced by Imperial Film Co., Bombay and beared censored No. 10043 on March 11. The most remarkable thing about this film was birth of sound in Indian films, it came with a bang and quickly displaced the silent movies and brought revolutionary changes in the whole set up of the industry. |
| 7/12/1920 | Siddharthacharry V, educationist and diplomat, was born at Mysore. |
| 11/29/1952 | First international organization for birth control founded in Bombay. |
| 3/13/1958 | Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet, literateur and writer,died at the age of 80. |
| 3/10/1904 | Raghunath Gopal Kokaje, great Hindi writer, was born at Bhoka, district Ratnagiri. |
| 8/25/1917 | The first significant step towards the Indianization of the Army was initiated when seven selected Indians, serving in the Army, were granted King's Commission in the Infantry and the Cavalry. Before the World War ended, two more Indians, who previously held temporary commissions, were granted King's Commission. |
| 5/1/1973 | All non-fuel Coal Mines fields were nationalised. |
| 2/6/1966 | Madurai Kamraj University established. |
| 4/30/1888 | Hailsones kill 246 in Moradabad. |
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