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Historical Event on 9/28/1954

137 people were killed when an Express Train fell from a flood-damaged bridge near East of Hydrabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/29/1939Ramkrishna Mission Sanskritik Sansthan (Institute of Culture) was established.
1/21/1997First group of bank documents relating to Bofors case handed over to Indian Government.
6/8/1897Manindranath Basu, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born.
12/9/1997Dr. K. Shivarama Karanth (95), doyen of Kannada literature and Jnanpith Award winner, died in Manipal.
12/15/1997Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University.
4/24/1858Kunwar Singh, revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, passed away. He fought his last battle near Jagdishpur, Bihar on April 23, 1858 and defeated the Britishers but was deeply wounded. He also organised the national rebels.
2/27/1990Polls in Pondicherry and eight states.
1/24/1826Gnanendra Mohan Tagore, first Indian barrister, was born in Calcutta.
11/7/1950King Tribhubana Bir Bikram of Nepal flees palace for refuge in Indian Embassy at Kathmandu.
3/26/1996The 3-day old Hazratbal shrine crisis ends, as the militants holed up in the shrine come out of it.