May28

B. S. Chawla was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 21-02-1973.

Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India).

Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad, India kills 400.

Bagal Bhai Madhavrao Khanderao, freedom fighter, author and painter, was born.

The first Cultural Exchange Programme was signed between India and China.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar "Veer Savarkar", great freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, was born at Bhagur village near Nasik.

Shantanu L. Kirloskar, great industrialist, was born at Sholapur (Maharashtra).

Purohit Dingambar Vinayak (Nanasaheb), leader in Maharashtra, was born.

Nandamuri Tarak Ramarao, film star, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and founder of Telgu Desam Party, was born. He has acted in many films including 'Patal Bhairavi'.

Awadh Kishore Narain, educationist, was born.

Bhagwaticharan Vohra, great revolutionary freedom fighter, died near the banks of Ravi river during a bomb testing.

Bhagwan Gopinathji Bhan, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India. He has been called a "jivanmukta" (liberated soul) or "Aghoreshwar" and his spiritual state has been described as "Shambhavi Avastha" (state of Shiva), died. He was a great devotee of Shiva and Shakti and took intense ""Sadhana"". His disciples and devotees set up an ashram at Kharyar in Srinagar in his name.

A slow-moving funeral cortege containing the body of Jawaharlal Nehru inched through the streets of New Delhi today. A million and a half Indians lined the route to pay final respects to their beloved leader.

Indo-US naval exercises begin.

Khidr Khan Syed, Governor of Lahore, replaced Daulat Khan Lodi on Delhi's throne.

Edward VIII, King of Great Britain/N Ireland/emperor (India 1936), passed away at the age of 77.

The kiss comes to the Hindi screen in 'Love Sublime,' and is seen as a sign of what the govt. calls greater 'creative freedom,' after Indira Gandhi's authoritarian rule at Bombay.

Bhagwaticharan, great revolutionary, passed away.

All India Trade Union Congress was divided.

Former Union Ministers Arjun Singh, N.D. Tiwari, R.K. Dhawan and Madhavrao Scindia discharged in the Jain hawala case by special judge V.B. Gupta.

13-day-old BJP-led minority coalition govt. headed by A.B. Vajpayee quits at the end of a two-day debate on a motion of confidence.

BJP Govt. incapable of assembling a majority after two weeks. A left-wing coalition takes over headed by new prime minister H. D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader and United Front coalition government. He held this office till 12 April 1997.

India takes retaliatory measures against Australia for its unilateral action.